Karla Olvera is an associate attorney at the litigation department of OLIVARES and is a member of the Life Sciences group, where she provides legal advice to clients from different industries through the preparation and implementation of innovative strategies to protect their intellectual property rights in Mexico. Her professional practice focuses on litigation related to patents, trademarks, unfair competition, regulatory and administrative matters.

She participated in the first case in Mexico where it was decided to revoke the granting of a marketing authorization of a medicine in violation of a formulation patent derived from the non-compliance by the regulatory authority of the existing linkage system between the granting of marketing authorizations and patents in force, as well as in the first case where the application of said system was recognized in relation to a use patent and its defense in public tenders.

Currently, Karla is involved in different litigations related to government procurement, data protection of biologics medicines as well as in infringement actions involving said products and the granting of marketing authorizations for biocomparable medicines.