Biography: Trademarks

Ricardo Mejia is an attorney-at-law specialised in commercial law. He has been a partner and director of the intellectual property department of Bufete Mejia & Asociados since 1990. Bufete Mejia & Asociados has been consistently ranked as a top Honduran IP firm and is also known for top quality regional IP services covering Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa-Rica, Belize, Panama and The Dominican Republic.

Mr Mejía has served as ad-honorem advisor of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Honduras on intellectual property issues since 1995. He is an ex-professor of Commercial Law at the University of San Pedro Sula, Honduras; former member of the editorial board of Inter-American Trade published by the National Law Center (Inter-American Free Trade, Tuczon, AZ); former vice-president of the intellectual property sub-committee of the Inter-American Bar Association based in Washington DC, and member of its council; contributor to The New Role Of Intellectual Property In Commercial Transactions edited by Simensky Bryer & Wilcof and published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc; former president of the Honduran-Mexican Chamber of Commerce; and contributor for Honduras in Katzarov's Manual On Industrial Property. Mr Mejia is the overseas associate of the Institute Of Trademark Attorneys (London, England); a member of the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG); and a member of the International Annual Review (IAR) task force of the International Trademark Association. He is a former delegate for Honduras before the Inter-American Association of Industrial Property (ASIPI); and the contributor to the chapter for Honduras in Trademarks Throughout The World.

Mr Mejia has dictated conferences in New York, Santiago de Chile, San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Salvador and Panama on Industrial Property Issues. He is an Honorary Consul of Paraguay in Honduras.

Ricardo Mejia was born on 13 September in 1964. He is a married Honduran citizen and a father of two.