Patricio González Granados

Partner

Pat is an Intellectual Property and IT lawyer with more than ten years of professional experience.

He has occupied public positions in the Mexican Patent and Trademark Office as well as in courts and tribunals from the Federal Judiciary. Later on, Pat shifted his practice to the private sector in law firms specialized in Intellectual Property and Technology, having at his charge copyrights, trademark infringement, competition, and domain name disputes, and counseling companies in the software, videogames, entertainment, and fintech industries.

Additionally, Pat has participated in the private initiative’s task force that assisted the Mexican Federal Government during the negotiation of the most recent free-trade agreements that Mexico executed with the United States and the European Union.

He has been recognized by the World Trademark Review’s ranking for his outstanding work in litigation and trademarks, and recommended by the legal services directory Legal 500 (Legalease).

Currently, he is the sub-coordinator of the IT Commission of the Mexican Bar Association, Counselor and Director of the IP Committee for DELA (Disputes Europe – Latin America), authorized arbitrator by the Mexican Copyright Office, and member of the pro bono group Bitcoin Legal Defense.

Education

Publications

- “Commentaries on the ‘reservation of rights’ figure in Mexican law”, paper published in the 26th edition of the “Intellectual Right” journal, edited by the Interamerican Association of Intellectual Property (‘ASIPI’), 2021.
- “Personal Data Protection Dictionary: Fundamental Concepts”, INAI, 2020 – joint author in the ‘Personal Image Rights’ and ‘Patrimonial Rights' entries.
- “Cross-Border Copyright Licensing Law and Practice” (Elgar Intellectual Property Law and Practice series), 2018 – joint author in the chapter for Mexican copyright legislation.
- “Federal Constitution: commentaries and analysis”, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2017 – authored the chapter on Article 28 of the Mexican Constitution in relation to Intellectual Property.
- “Commented Federal Copyright Law” – Mexican Associaton for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI) and Editorial Porrúa, 2016 – joint author in the chapter on software protection.