Hedwig Lindner is a founding partner and head of the Patent Litigation Department of Arochi & Lindner, with over 35 years of experience in the area. She is a leading patent litigator with particular experience in life sciences, including wins in several landmark cases for clients in the pharmaceuticals and biotech industries. Her expertise also includes trademark and trade secrets law.
Chambers and Partners’ Latin American Guide ranks Hedwig in its Top Tier in IP and also ranks her in Life Sciences. Chambers 2016 edition reports that clients describe her as “a great lawyer who is definitely one of the leaders.” World Trademark Review 1000 (2015) portrays her work as “impeccable”: “She knows the market better than anyone and is a tough negotiator and a dynamic, commercially minded litigator.”
In addition to litigation, Hedwig practice includes licensing. She also advises on regulatory issues affecting the life sciences sector in Mexico and serves as Counsel to the Mexican Association of Generic Drug Companies (ANAFAM). Heidi also has advised the Senate Commissions of Public Treasury and Legislative Studies on amendments of Mexico IP Law.
Most recently, she has been a member of the elite private sector team representing the pharmaceutical industry, which advised the Mexican Government in the Intellectual Property Chapter during the negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Member of AIPPI, ASIPI, AMPPI, INTA and the Mexican Bar Association. She is a former president of AMPPI (Mexican Intellectual Property Association), the Mexico chapter of the International Association for the Protection of International Property (AIPPI).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Chambers and Partners | 2019 Latin America Rankings | Intellectual Property in Mexico | Ranked Lawyers | Band 1
• IAM | 2019 Patent 1000 | Mexico | Patent Litigation | Individual | Tier 1
• IP Stars | 2019 Ranking | Patent Star
• IP Stars | 2019 Ranking | Trademark Star
• The Legal 500 | 2019 Leading Lawyers Ranking | Intellectual Property | Mexico | Tier 1
• World Trademark Review | 2019 WTR 1000 Ranking | Mexico | Enforcement and Litigation | Individuals | Tier 1
• Women in Business Law Awards 2019 | “Best litigator in Latin America”
Arochi & Lindner (A&L) is one of the most respected and recognized names in Latin American intellectual property protection. Since its founding in 1994, A&L has distinguished itself with its legal expertise and exceptional understanding of business needs. Over the years, A&L has anticipated the evolving IP market by developing a tenacious enforcement practice that is now the largest in Mexico, enhancing its patent practice with industry-specific technical competencies, adding commercial litigation capabilities to address related business issues and opening offices in Spain to provide a Latin America–European gateway for IP services.
A&L handles all aspects of IP including trademark, patent, copyright, IP litigation and dispute resolution, IP rights enforcement, life sciences, domain names, trade secret protection, as well as, advertising and marketing, data privacy and protection, civil and commercial litigation, corporate and regulatory law.
A&L has developed a strong technological capacity to provide to its client’s relevant information of the trademarks applications filed at the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property to file the required oppositions when it is needed. Our IP portfolio includes trademarks owners from the following sectors information technologies, entertainment, food and non-alcoholic beverages, alcoholic beverages, pharmaceutical, automobile, apparel, luxury brands, videogames, etc.
A&L has comprehensive coverage of sector matters such as enforcement, piracy, and counterfeiting. The firm has continued carrying out several raids (administrative and criminal), border measures that resulted in the seizure of many products at Customs from different industries and participated in several training seminars with the Mexican Custom Service and other Federal Agencies. A&L has special expertise in IP litigation. The firm handles more than 40% of the IP litigation cases in Mexico.
A&L’s passionate and collaborative team of more than 70 top-tier intellectual property lawyers, corporate lawyers, commercial litigators, engineers, chemists, biologists, trademark agents, paralegals, investigators and translators, work proficiently and untiringly to enforce, protect and commercialize its clients’ intellectual property rights. The team includes some key market figures including Roberto Arochi, Heidi Lindner, Jorge Mier y Concha, María Teresa Eljure and Ricardo Sanguino.
