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BIOGRAPHY
José Alejandro Santana is an indispensable member of Bufete Lugo Lovaton. He is the Intellectual Property Department Director, having accumulated around fifteen years of experience in the field.
FIELDS OF PRACTICE
José’s expertise encompasses the field of intellectual property, including the protection, prosecution and enforcement of distinctive signs. His scope reaches the management of local and international trademarks and trademark portfolios. He provides clients with counseling for all concerns regarding intellectual property rights and his other areas of knowledge.
Jose’s practice also includes patent prosecution, as well as brand enforcement, anti-counterfeiting actions, border measures, customs protection and copyright infringement. Highly skilled in trademark counseling and administrative actions, that includes clearance, oppositions and cancellations and due diligence.
Furthermore, he has experience working with contracts concerning advertising and image rights, marketing, promotions, copyright, licensing of musical works, related rights and beyond.
Jose is also legal interpreter in English-Spanish before Dominican Courts, as well as an active member of several local and international intellectual property associations, project consultant for the Word Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), professor of the Academia of the National Copyright Office and Board member of the Intellectual Property Caribbean Association (IPCA).
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s Degree in Law
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.
Summa Cum Laude
Dominican Republic (2012).
Master’s in Corporate Business Law
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.
Dominican Republic (2014).
Copyright Teaching
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization
Dominican Republic (2022)
IV Virtual Diploma in “Copyright Law and Related Rights” from the Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) and the Universidad Escuela de Administración, Finanzas y Tecnología (EAFIT). April – October 2013.
Diploma in “Intellectual Property Law” organized by the Fundación Institucionalidad y Justicia (FINJUS) and the Universidad Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU). Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. June 2014.
Diploma in “Competition Law” organized by the Fundación Institucionalidad y Justicia (FINJUS) and the Universidad Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU). Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. October 2014.
PUBLICATIONS
“La Marca País como Estrategia para la Exportación de la Artesanía Dominicana” (Nation Brand as a Strategy for of Dominican Crafts Export). National Office of Industrial Property’s Institutional Magazine “Artesanía: Tradición e Inspiración”. December 2023.
“El registro de marca como acto de competencia desleal – competencia de la Oficina Nacional de la Propiedad Industrial (ONAPI) para conocer de actos de competencia desleal por registros de marcas bajo la ley núm. 20-00” (Trademark registration as an act of unfair competition – faculty of the National Office of Industrial Property). Gaceta Judicial, No. 384, April 2019.
“Marcas de Ficción (Fictional Trademarks) en la República Dominicana” (Fictional Trademarks in Dominican Republic). Gaceta Judicial, No. 343, July 2015.
Thesis “El Régimen de Exclusividad en los Contratos de Distribución. Controversias y Aplicación en República Dominicana” (The exclusivity regime of Distrition Contracts, Controversies and Application in Dominican Republic). Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. July 2014.
Thesis “La Tutela del Derecho de Autor en Internet en República Dominicana” (Protection of Internet Copyright in Dominican Republic). Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. July 2012.
RECOGNITIONS
Chambers and Partners
INTA Rising Star 2023-2024
WTR 1000 – World Trademark Review
Sub-Champion and Best Speaker, Judicial Competition “Manuel A. Amiama”, Procedimiento ante la Jurisdicción Contencioso Administrativa, of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Campus Santo Tomás de Aquino. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. July 2011.
Sub-Champion and Best Writer in the First Edition of the “Competencia Jurídica de Propiedad Intelectual, Procedimiento ante la Jurisdicción Civil”, of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Campus Santo Tomás de Aquino. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. December 2011.
LANGUAGES
Spanish
English
French
MEMBERSHIPS
Colegio de Abogados de la República Dominicana. (Dominican Republic Bar Association).
International Trademark Association (INTA)
Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI)
Intellectual Property Caribbean Association (IPCA) – Board Member
Dominican Intellectual Property Association (ADOPI)
