Sergio M. Ellmann

He joined Marval O’Farrell Mairal in 1983 and became a partner in 1995. He specializes in industrial property, advising domestic and foreign companies, primarily on trademarks, security interests based on industrial property rights, the internet and other related intellectual property rights.

A lawyer, he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1987 and earned an LL.M. from the University of Illinois in 1990. He teaches industrial property as an adjunct professor at Universidad de San Andrés and has spoken at numerous seminars and conferences at other universities and specialist forums. He has also taught practical negotiation courses for lawyers at the Buenos Aires School of Law.

He is the author of the Argentina chapter of the book "The New Role of Intellectual Property in Commercial Transactions" (Melvin Simensky-Lanning Bryer-Neil Wilkof), published in 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He also advises on the Argentina chapters of other foreign and domestic publications concerning domain names and the use of trademarks on the internet.

He is a member of the Public Bar Association of the Federal Capital and the Buenos Aires City Bar Association, and a former assistant to the secretary general of AIPPI Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriete Industrielle (2008-2014). He was president of AAAPI Asociación Argentina de Agentes de Propiedad Industrial (2006-2010) and is currently the Argentine ambassador to the ICC IP Commission.

Education

• A lawyer, he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1987 and earned an LL.M. from the University of Illinois in 1990. He teaches industrial property as an adjunct professor at Universidad de San Andrés and has spoken at numerous seminars and conferences at other universities and specialist forums. He has also taught practical negotiation courses for lawyers at the Buenos Aires School of Law.