Juan Pablo Cárdenas Manzo

Associate since 2022

Juan Pablo’s professional practice is focused on providing legal consultancy related to the creation and development of strategies for the protection, maintenance, and enforcement of trademarks, inventions, trade secrets, copyright, and related rights, as well as in drafting entertainment, technology transfer and licensing, franchise, and art loan contracts. Furthermore, he provides consultancy the areas of privacy and data protection, domain dispute resolution, regulatory law, information technology and piracy.

He has experience in the protection of intellectual property assets and image rights, through administrative procedures, settlement proceedings, litigation in the administrative, civil, and criminal fields, and their appeals, and constitutional remedies (amparos) and motions of review against unconstitutional acts.

Has successfully represented to clients of several industries in obtaining the registration of intellectual property assets, their cancellation and invalidation, the declaration of infringement actions for the invasion to such intellectual rights, the seizure of merchandise, the granting of sanitary authorizations by COFEPRIS for pharmaceutical products for cannabis products through litigation, declaration of unconstitutionality of several administrative laws, obtaining the authorization for the use of geographical denominations, the declaration of fame or well-known trademarks, among others.

During 2018 and 2019, Juan Pablo studied the LLM program “Law and Technology”, at Tilburg University (“Netherlands”), acquiring deep knowledge regarding cybercrime, e-commerce, blockchain, smart contracts, privacy and data protection, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property topics.

+52 (55) 5201 7586
jpcardenas@macf.com.mx
Languages
  • Spanish.
  • English.

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Education
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Law- La Salle, A.C. University, 2011- 2015.
  • Master’s Degree- Law and Technology LLM- Tilburg University (Netherlands), 2018-2019.
Experience
  • Litigation Law Clerk and Associate, Basham, Ringe y Correa, S.C., 2014-2018.
  • Litigation Associate, Calderón y de la Sierra y Cia, S.C., 2019-2022.
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Cliente satisfecho estrechando la mano con un abogado: Cliente feliz con servicio legal en Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes S.C.

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February 19, 2025
On December 27, 2024, a decree was published amending the Fiscal Code of Mexico City, introducing a new obligation for owners of residential properties whose value is equal to or greater than MXN $4,524,974.08. The obligation requires the submission of an annual statement before the Secretary of Administration and Finance of Mexico City (SAF) on the occupancy status of their properties.
February 14, 2025
On February 5, 2025, Mexico’s President submitted a bill to the Senate that proposes new laws and reforms in the electric sector: the Law of the Electric Sector ("LES"), the Law of the National Energy Commission, the Law of the State Public Company, Federal Electricity Commission, the Law of Energy Planning and Transition, the Law of Biofuels, and the Law of Geothermal Energy are issued, and the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration is modified.
February 14, 2025
On February 5, 2025, President Claudia Sheinbaum introduced a bill (the "Bill") to the Senate to, among other things, enact the Law of the Hydrocarbons Sector (the “LSH”), the Law of the National Energy Commission (the "Law of the CNE"), and the Law of the State Public Company, Petróleos Mexicanos (the “Law of PEMEX”).