Attorney`s Resume

Néstor Morera Víquez
Costa Rica
Master, Attorney and Notary
Memberships
• Member of Attorney’s Association of Costa Rica
• INTA
• Intellectual Property Commission and the Chamber of Commerce of Costa Rica
Education
• University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica (November 2002)
Attorney and Notary, Graduate, Thesis approved with honors
• State Distance Education University, San Jose, Costa Rica (April 2002)
Expert in International Commerce
• University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain (July 2004)
Master in Industrial and Intellectual Property and Information Society
• University of Turin, Turin, Italy (September 2003)
Ll.M in Intellectual Property and Specialization Course
• Area of Specialization: Industrial and Intellectual Property and Information Society
• Publications:
- Co-author of “Patent Module Document”. Document OMPI-SIC-COLCIENCIAS/PI/BOG/05/1.
National OMPI-SIC-COLCIENCIAS Conference on patents in the framework of projects on
network research and Intellectual Property, organized by the WIPO, the Colombian Institute for
the development of science and technology COLCIENCIAS, and the Superintendent of Industry
and Commerce, and the RUIG. Bogota, Colombia, June 7-16, 2005
- “Protección de los Datos de Prueba y Medicamentos Genéricos” (Data Protection of Proof and
Generis Medicine). Iustitia Magazine. Year 19. No. 219-220. San Jose, Costa Rica, March-April
2005.
- “Indicaciones Geográficas: Propuesta de Implementación para países en vías de Desarrollo”
(Geographic Indications: Proposal for Implementation for Developing Countries), Final work of
Masters, Universidad de Alicante (University of Alicante, Alicante), Spain, October 2004.
- “Geographical Indications: Relevant Issues for Developing Countries in the WTO International
Debate”. Ll.M in Intellectual Property and Specialization Course. WIPO-University de Turin.
Presented in Turin, Italy September 28, 2003.
- Final research project, “Situación Actual y Compromisos Pendientes del gobierno de Costa Rica
ante la entrada en vigencia del ALCA” (Current situation and pending agreements by the Costa
Rican government upon becoming a member of ALCA); University Estatal a Distancia (UNED)Fundación para el Desarrollo del Comercio International (FUDECI). San Jose, Costa Rica, 20 de
April, 2002.
• Academic Activities:
- Conference speaker on trademark material for the OMPI
- Coordinator and faculty of the course “Practice in Industrial Property, Intellectual Society of
Information” School of Law, University de Costa Rica.
- Professor of Intellectual Property and the Notary Law specialty at the University of Costa Rica
- Coordinator of Legal Aspects of Internacional Commerce, Development Foundation for
International Commerce
- Professor and conference speaker on patents, trademarks and courses on introduction to
Industrial Property at the Chamber of Commerce of Costa Rica, Latin University of Costa Rica,
and the University La Salle.
• Languages: spanish, english, french and italian.
Professional History
• Morera & Morera Law Firm, Heredia, Costa Rica (2001 to the present)
Attorney
• Olarte, Raisbeck & Frieri, Bogota, Colombia (October 2004 - March 2005)
Assistant
• Clarke, Modet & Co, Alicante, Spain (July 2004 - October 2004)
Scholar in the Department of Trademarks and Community Designs