Ninoshka is a Partner at Consortium Legal – Guatemala with more than 24 years of experience advising multinational corporations, companies, and entrepreneurs on intellectual property protection, management, and enforcement. Her practice focuses on trademarks, geographical indications, appellations of origin, domain names, and copyright.

She specializes in preventing and resolving trademark disputes, prioritizing amicable settlements over lengthy and costly litigation. Together with the litigation team, she advises on copyright infringement cases in criminal matters, border measures, unfair competition actions, nullities, non-use cancellations, and infringement of distinctive signs. She also provides counsel in drafting and negotiating contracts, including confidentiality agreements, trademark assignments and licenses, and copyright-related agreements involving artists, musicians, and image rights.

From 2013 to 2018, she served as Guatemala’s Delegate to the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI) and was a member of its Geographical Indications Committee (2013–2023). She has also served on several International Trademark Association (INTA) committees, including the Harmonization of Trademark Law and Practice Committee (2018–2021), and currently serves on the Famous and Well-Known Trademarks Committee. For over 15 years, she has been part of the Intellectual Property Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM).

With more than 15 years of academic experience, she was among the first professors to introduce Intellectual Property Law courses in Guatemalan universities. She is also a frequent lecturer and trainer for public and private entities. Her academic contributions include the update of the Trademark chapter in “Trademarks Throughout the World” (2022) and collaborations in ASIPI publications on geographical indications.

Practice Areas

• Intellectual Property
• Copyright and Related Rights
• Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications
• Trademark Litigation and Unfair Competition
• Intellectual Property Contracts and Emerging Technologies (NFTs)

• Advising on contracts involving NFTs and emerging technologies.
• Development and implementation of Trademark Policies for food industry companies.
• Management of international trademark portfolios for medium and large companies.
• Protection of national patents abroad.
• Defense of over 100 European appellations of origin and geographical indications, including judicial and cassation proceedings.
• Drafting and filing of the first Appellation of Origin in Guatemala: Café Antigua, and its subsequent modification.

• Master’s Degree in Industrial Property, Intellectual Property and Information Society Law, Master Lvcentinvs, University of Alicante, Spain (2008)
• Postgraduate Course in Commercial Law, University of Salamanca, Spain (2004)
• Lawyer and Notary, Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences, Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala (2001)

• Member, Guatemala Bar Association
• Member, American Chamber of Commerce Guatemala
• Member, International Trademark Association
• Member, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
• Member, Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property