Fernández, María Fabiana

Fabiana graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She is a member of the Intellectual Property, Fair Trade and Litigation & Arbitration Practice groups. She joined the Firm in 2011.

She received her LL. B. from the School of Law of the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1989. She also earned a Master’s Degree in Negotiation and Strategy (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa) and took a graduate course in Trademark Law at the School of Law of the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a graduate course in Intellectual Property Contracts at the Universidad Austral.

Fabiana specializes in Intellectual Property litigation and has extensive experience in the matter. She is in charge of the Litigation and Copyright areas of the IP Practice. In addition, she coordinates and manages global trademark portfolios for local and foreign clients in 70 countries; she is in charge of the IP transfers sector, coordinates and gives advice on domain name issues in Argentina and abroad, and advises foreign companies and leading advertising agencies on copyrights, Technology and Internet Law and IP contracts in general. In the Fair Trade area, Fabiana provides advice on fair trade conflicts to multinational companies doing business in Argentina.

For more than 20 years, Fabiana has been a professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE) and a visiting professor of the Master’s Degree Program in Business Law (MADE) at said University. She was a professor in the graduate course on Copyrights at the Universidad del Salvador (USAL). In 2002, she lectured at the Conference of the Argentine Multimedia Association about “Liability of Internet Providers”, and was a speaker at the Orientation Course on Trademarks and Trade Names for candidates for the Registry of Intellectual Property Agents given at the Trademarks Office of the Argentine Institute of Intellectual Property. She has participated in several intellectual property seminars and congresses both in Argentina and abroad.

Fabiana is a member of the Buenos Aires City Bar Association, the Inter-American Industrial Property Association (ASIPI), the Argentine Industrial Property Agents Association (AAAPI), and the Copyrights Association (ASDIN). She is registered to act before the Federal Courts of the Argentine Provinces.

She is the author of the “Derecho sobre la propia imagen” chapter in the “Derechos Intelectuales” Book, volume XIII, year 2007, Depalma Publishers.