MÓNIKA FIALLO PARADAS
Practice areas:
Intellectual Property, Business, Immigration, Labor, and Family Law.
Experience:
Ms. Fiallo Paradas has been part of the Firm since 2001 and its Partner since 2019. She has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of Intellectual Property, Business, Immigration, Labor, and Family Law. She has been for more than 15 years member of the Asociación Dominicana de Propiedad Intelectual (ADOPI) and was its President of its Board of Directors for the period 2020-2022. In addition, she represents Russin Vecchi & Heredia Bonetti, in the International Trademark Association (INTA) where she has participated as a member of several of its committees, such as INTA’s General TM Enforcement Matters Subcommittee, Parallel Imports Committee and Right of Publicity Committee.
Throughout her professional career she has advised leading companies in the pharmaceutical, veterinary, nutritional, music, technology, among other sectors since its incorporation and during the course of its operations, assisting them in the protection of their rights in administrative processes before the Oficina Nacional de la Propiedad Intelectual (ONAPI), Ministerio de Salud Pública and the Instituto de Defensa de los Derechos del Consumidor (Proconsumidor), as well as before the courts of the Republic.
Her experience includes cases of counterfeit products, violation and defense of copyright, image rights, compliance with regulatory issues and licenses, distribution, advertising, labor rights, transactional movement of personnel and immigration permits.
Within the Family Law area, Ms. Fiallo Paradas, handles international adoption procedures, civil and canonic divorce matters, inheritance, alimony and custody claims and negotiations.
Ranked by Chambers Latin America uninterrupted since 2015 as Intellectual Property Associates to Watch. She has also been recommended by Legal 500 Latin America as Next Generation Partner, a significant recognition from our clients.
She is professor of Intellectual Property and Inventions at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) and the National School of Public Ministry.
Education:
- Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (LL. B., Magna Cum Laude, 2002).
- Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Postgrado en Derecho Procesal Civil, 2003).
- World Intellectual Property Organization (Certificate of General Estudies Intellectual Property, 2003).
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Certificate of Studies in International Business Law, 2009).
- Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Maestría en Derecho Procesal Civil, 2013).
- Instituto Especializado de Estudios Superiores de Derecho Empresarial (Expertise in Real Estate Law, 2015).
- OBS Business School/Universidad de Barcelona (Máster en Propiedad Intelectual e Industrial 2018).
Memberships:
- Dominican Bar Association (2002)
- Asociación Dominicana de la Propiedad Intelectual (2003)
- International Trademark Association (INTA)
Author:
- “Propuesta de Modificación a la Ley No. 95 sobre Migración”, 2002.
- “Jurisprudencia Internacional Reciente sobre casos conflictivos en material de Propiedad Intelectual” (Recent International jurisprudence regarding conflicting cases in IP), 2009.
- “Intellectual Property in Latin America and the Caribbean”, prepared by Meritas Lawyers in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009.
- “Prueba de Uso de la Marca en la República Dominicana” (Evidence of Use of the Trademark in DR) 2012.
- “Breves comentarios sobre la implementación de la Ley de Migración y su Reglamento de aplicación” (Brief comments on the implementation of the Migration Act and its Regulation), 2012.
- “Forma de adquisición del derecho de uso exclusivo sobre la marca en la República Dominicana” (Forms of acquisition of exclusive rights of a trademark in Dominican Republic), 2015.
- “Uso Efectivo de la marca en RD”, (Efective Use of Trademarks in DR), 2016.
- “La Delgada Línea Roja de Importaciones Paralelas en la República Dominicana”, (The Thin Red Line of Parallel Imports in DR), 2017.
- “Efecto Adverso de la Innovación en la Imagen Corporativa por el Uso Inadecuado de Medios Digitales”, (Adverse Effect of the Innovation in the Corporate Image due to the Inadequate Use of Digital Media).
- “Conflictos por la Conservación de Murales: Realidad Dominicana y Posibles Soluciones”, (Conflicts for the Conservation of Murals: Dominican Reality and Possible Solutions), 2018.
- “A Propósito del Pacto Mundial para la Migración Segura, Ordenada y Regular”, (About the Global Compact for Secure, Ordered and Regular Migration), 2018.
- “Patents and Distinctive Signs”, 2020.
Languages:
Spanish and English.
