Beatriz is a senior associate in the IP & Technology Dispute
Resolution Group. She has a degree and PhD from the
University of Cambridge specialising in genetics, cellular and
molecular biology. She completed the Bristol University
Diploma in Intellectual Property Law in 2006.
Beatriz has a broad practice area advising clients in all
aspects of intellectual
property, with a particular focus on patents, SPCs and the life
sciences sector. She is currently assisting in
two patent cases on behalf of Eli Lilly & Company and a further
medical device patent case before the Patents County Court.
For the past three years, Beatriz has been heavily involved in a
substantial multijurisdictional breach of confidence action on
behalf of Vestergaard Frandsen concerning
insecticide incorporated mosquito nets and has
assisted in associated patent entitlement cases in a number of
countries.
Besides her considerable experience with patents, Beatriz has
been the lead assistant in a major passing off case. She has
managed the brand and domain name protection programmes of a number
of multi-national companies including Dell and Logica against
on-line abuse. Beatriz has also advised a chemicals company
on copyright and database right concerning dossiers produced under
the Biocidal Products Directive and has provided intellectual
property advice to the Home Office on the National DNA Database and
the restructuring of the Forensic Science Service.
Beatriz is a member of AIPPI and of the Life Sciences &
Healthcare group at FFW. She has written numerous articles
for legal and pharmaceutical publications and is on the Editorial
Advisory Board of Pharmaceutical Technology Europe. Beatriz is a
regular speaker in a number of external conferences.For the past
four years, Beatriz has coordinated a series of IP lectures for the
University of Cambridge Master in Bioscience Enterprise and is one
of the lecturers in the course.
Beatriz is bilingual in Spanish and English.