Especialists in Intelectual Property
Shimojyo Abogados is a law firm legally stablished in Bolivia offering multidisciplinary services in IP, Corporate Law, Arbitration and International trade with high experienced professionals having a career path known at the national and international level.
WHO WE ARE
MISSION
Offering integral and multidisciplinary services in technical and legal advice and management in in IP, Corporate Law, Arbitration and International trade to prevent and solve our client’s problems on a national and international level.
VISION
Become a national and international recognized firm for our client’s satisfaction providing services with high standards of ethics, quality and excellence.
VALUES
Ethics
Quality
Excellence
Responsibility
Honesty
Confidentiality
The interaction between the technical and legal allows us to offer high level services having competitive advantages since 25 years ago of professional exercise with a wide work experience. We are the generators and discussion and approval members of Andean Community Nations normative such as Decision 486 common regime of IP and foundation of the National Service of Intellectual Property in 1996.
SERVICES
Intelectual
Property
Arbitrary and Conciliation
Corporate Law
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
1. Distinctive Signs
- Trademarks (Brand name, Service brand, Collective)
- Appellation of origin
- Search and feasibility study of trademarks
- Registration application
- Transfers
- Trademark caution
- Oppositions, withdrawal, invalidity
- Defense
- Border measures
- Violation
- License Agreement
- Administrative and legal resources
- Renewal
2. Innovation
- Invention patents
- Utility models
- Integrated circuits
- Writing descriptive memory and claims
- Registration application
- Annuity payments
COPYRIGHT AND RELATED
- Registration application
- Administrative conciliation
- Violations
- License Agreement
- Contract draftings
- License for use
- Related: Drafting of the statutes of the Collective Management Society
CORPORATE LAW
• Constitution of companies
• Drafting statutes and regulations
• Merger of companies
• Transformations
• Settlement
• Legal audit
• Confidentiality contracts
ARBITRARY AND CONCILIATION
- Criminal matters (preliminary stage, Preparatory stage, Oral trial)
- Civil: People’s interdiction procedure, right-of-way, compensation for damages
- Labor (Confidentiality contracts)
- Intellectual Property Rights and Commercial Law
TEAM
Keiko Shimojyo
Lawyer
General Manager
Roberto Arteaga
Agricultural Engineer
Administrative Manager
Keiko Shimojyo
Lawyer
General Manager
Masters in:
- International Corporate Law
- Business Administration
- International Business Administration
- Intellectual Property
Specializations and Diplomas in:
- Forensic Criminal Procedure
- International arbitration
- Strategic planning
- Higher education
- Copyright and related
- Contentious Law of Integration and
Marking Law
- Patent Fund Exam
- Specialization in Trademarks and Patents
WORK EXPERIENCE
Public Sector
- Founder and first director of the National Intellectual Property Service (SENAPI)
- Director of Industrial Property
- Director of Registration of Commerce and Companies by Shares
- National Delegate in the Andean Community for the drafting of Decision 486
- Notary of Government
Private Sector
- Representative of Marcaria in Bolivia
- Arbitrator of the Center for Conciliation and Commercial Arbitration of the National Chamber of Commerce
- Advisor and general manager in ASBOPROFON
- Advisor to the Bolivian Chamber of Books
- Consultant of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)
- Administrative Manager in Shimpo LTDA.
Consultancies in:
- Technological innovation for Agriculture (IICA)
- Bill for the Defense of the Consumer (Ombudsman's Office)
- Ombudsman's Office
- Proposal for the Regulation of Audiovisual Works in Protected Areas (SERNAP)
University teaching in Undergraduate and Master of Law
Seminars and courses dictated on Intellectual Property at national and international level
Roberto Arteaga
Agricultural Engineer
Administrative Manager
Masters in Agroecology and Sustainable Rural Development
Intellectual Property rights Specialization in:
- Patents
- Biotechnological inventions and plant variety breeder
- Generic Resources
Project Management Specialization
WORK EXPERIENCE
Extensive knowledge of the productive reality and technological innovation of the Countries of the Andean Community, Mercosur, Central America and Cuba.
National Coordinator of the Continuous Innovation Program (PIC) - Swiss Cooperation.
Director of Technology and Health of the Ministry of Peasant and Agricultural Affairs of the Government of Bolivia.
Consultant in "Productive Systems", for the Identification and Consolidation of Community Lands of Origin (TCO’s – UGTI’s) of the Ministry of Peasant Affairs, Indigenous and Originated Peoples of Bolivia.
Coordinator in Conservation of Genetic Resources, of the National Directorate of Biodiversity Conservation of Bolivia.
University teacher in Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Independent consultant in:
- Systematization of experiences
- Planning and evaluation of programs and projects in Agricultural Technology Innovation Area - INIAF management model
- Value chains
- Security and food sovereignty
- Agricultural health
- Environmental conservation
- Biodiversity - genetic resources
- Intellectual Property
- Indigenous and native peoples
CONTACT US
Muñoz Reyes Avenue
Calacoto 25th Street,
Tower "Nuestra señora del Carmen" Floor 1 Of. 1A
keiko@shimojyoabogados.com
Tel: +591 - 2794678
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