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Diana C. Leguizamón-Morales
Associate

Contact

Munich
(T) +49.89.20.60.42.200
(F) +49.89.20.60.42.293

Education

  • Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (Dr. iur. candidate); Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, MIPLC (LL.M. in Intellectual Property 2006); Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia (Specialist Industrial Property, Copyright, and New Technologies 2003); University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada (B.Sc. Hons. in Biology 2002); Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (Undergraduate studies, 1997-1999)

Bar Admissions

  • Colombian Patent Office

Diana Leguizamón-Morales focuses on biotechnology, plant sciences, and pharmaceuticals. She is a biologist with several postgraduate studies in intellectual property law, particularly in the area of patents.

Diana has considerable work experience with patent prosecution, including responses to office actions in patents involving pharmaceuticals and biotechnology (such as antibiotics, peptide immune modulators, RNAi, tissue engineering, recombinant virus, oncogene, stem cell technology, and plant biotechnology) and a variety of therapies (such as antiviral, anticancer, stem cell, and immunotherapies). Diana also has been an active contributor to high-profile patent opposition and appeal proceedings in technology matters dealing with plant sciences, biotechnology, and cancer therapies.

Diana is currently completing her doctoral thesis in legal protection of plant varieties and plant-related inventions at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Joseph Straus.


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Languages

English, German, Spanish
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