At MERTZ we are dedicated to identifying and protecting the intellectual capital of our clients. Our added and differentiating value lies in the strategic and multidisciplinary approach that our professionals bring to the management of our clients´ intellectual capital.

Our approach sets us apart from the competition. It consists of key engagement principles that guide our actions, to ensure our analysis is sound and tailored to each client’s needs, our plans are fair and creative, our findings are accepted, and our recommendations are internalized and implemented.

Mertz Peru identifies and safeguards our clients’ intellectual property in a wide range of fields and industries. We do this through the use of all types of intellectual property and related rights, such as patents and utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, copyright and trade secrets, as well as trade names, corporate names, social media, packaging, sanitary registration and regulatory compliance, among others.

We offer advice and support in specific and novel local and multi-jurisdictional service areas such as trade secret protection, innovation projects, technology readiness appraisals, technology scouting, monitoring and landscaping, IP due diligence, patent invalidation, freedom to operate, technology transfer, compliance with laws governing traditional knowledge and access to genetic resources in the life sciences, technology law, data protection, among others. Technology package evaluation, state-of-the-art research, and technical document drafting for patent applications.

Some of our strongest practice areas include plant breeder’s rights, life sciences – R&D contract negotiation and drafting, trade secret protection, technology transfer and technology watching services, including technology scouting and landscaping. Throughout, our constant personalized attention results in a close and lasting relationship with our clients.

Mertz differentiates itself, as a law and negotiation, consultancy and innovation firm. We are regularly engaged to negotiate agreements for our clients, concerning all aspects of intellectual property, technology, innovation, research and development projects. We design intellectual property strategies, execute them and litigate when required. We have rendered consultancy services for international organizations, government agencies related to research, innovation, technology, production, agriculture, fishing, promotion of exports, among other sectors, and work with several Peruvian universities and research institutions. We have authored both issues of the Peruvian technology transfer guide, made available to all Peruvian research and innovation institutions.

Our firm relies on a strong professional workforce including backgrounds as varied as law, business administration, agricultural engineering, mining engineering, chemistry, biology, biotechnology, genetics, product and process innovation, among others. We seamlessly integrate legal, business, science and technological expertise, to address complex, business, university and public institution innovation challenges.

In addition to their years of expertise and contributions to research and innovation, our professionals add value by managing the intellectual property of our clients in a strategic and multifaceted manner. We are able to design and apply IP strategies for our clients by means of our “IP Thinking” methodology that combines legal and technical know-how to promote innovative and one-of-a-kind solutions.

Our litigation team has exceptional experience in the life sciences area, and relies on the scientific know-how of our technical workforce, constantly in close and upfront communication with clients, several stages ahead of the impending situations of each process.

Our Innovation support service has been tailored to the Peruvian innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem characteristics, which have led to an increase in the demand for services linked to innovation management. The ISO 566000 family of standards, which covers idea generation, technology watch, intellectual property management, commercial exploitation of innovation, and the framework on which it can be built and used, served as the foundation for the design of our services.

Technology watching services are heavily utilized during the patent process, technological watching services are also consistent with our organization’s strategy. For this, we are putting the ISO 56006 standard into practice, with the goal of certifying our Technology Scouting services by the end of this year.

We were awarded a government grant to increase our use of digital tools, and have incorporated the use of specialized software solutions to manage our portfolio.