Helena Camargo

Helena Camargo is a partner at Posse Herrera Ruiz. She leads the IP team, overseeing the practice and focusing on international patent, trademark, copyright, and health registration searches and registrations. She has extensive experience in the management of international trademark and patent portfolios.

Her experience includes strategic advice to clients regarding the worldwide establishment of foreign brands, defense strategies, and opposition procedures; due diligence, organization and management of international portfolios of trademarks and patents, and administrative litigation. Helena’s experience as a litigator involves annulment actions and appeals in Colombia and in other countries. Additionally, she represents clients before the Trademark and Patent Office and before the State Council.

Helena is a lawyer from the Universidad del Rosario and a specialist in Intellectual Property from the Externado de Colombia University.

The team represents foreign and domestic clients in all Intellectual Property matters including patent and trademark clearance, prosecution and litigation, copyrights’ protection, due diligence investigations, drafting and negotiation of IP licenses and obtaining health registrations.

The Firm’s IP practice covers a wide range of industries, including foods and beverages, pharmaceuticals, insurance and financial services, retirement funds, retail, apparel, technology, manufacture, distribution, health care, cosmetics and entertainment.

Clients highlight the team’s experience in managing significant portfolios and designing strategies for IP rights protection and enforcement, its commitment to going the “extra mile”, its strong litigation skills and extensive due diligence experience. The team works closely with the dispute resolution practice in IP Litigation and in anti-counterfeiting suits and unfair competition claims.