Matias Pérez-Irazábal

Junior Partner, Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque

Matias Pérez is a junior partner with the firm, with expertise in trademarks and intellectual property. A graduate of the Universidad Fermín Toro, he also has a master’s in intellectual property from the Universidad Metropolitana. Mr Pérez- Irazábal is the author of a thesis entitled “Procedures to Obtain a Declaration of Notoriety of Trademarks in Venezuela” and co-author of a thesis entitled “Illegal Competition of Venezuelan Trademarks within the Andean Community of Nations”. He is a regular IP professor at the Caracas Design Institute and a guest professor of publicity law at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. His memberships include the Caracas Bar Association, the Venezuelan Association of Patent and Trademark Agents, the International Trademark Association and the Intellectual Property Summer Institute 2005, Franklin Pierce Law Centre, United States.