Patricia Covarrubia, abogado Venezuela, has an LLM in European Law from Southampton and PhD from Brunel. Her doctoral thesis is in Trade Mark Law, providing a critical evaluation of the registration of unconventional trade marks. From 1993 to 1999 she worked as a lawyer in Venezuela. Before coming to Buckingham, she taught Law (mainly EU law and Intellectual Property Law) in various universities and colleges: Brunel, BPP, Bucks New and Holborn.
Dr Covarrubia is Lecturer in Law at the University of Buckingham and manager/blogger in IP Tango (Intellectual Property weblog – Latin America). Her research interests include geographical indications and indications of origin, compulsory licences in the pharmaceutical industry, domain names, and the protection of traditional knowledge. She is the author of Chemical Sense Marks: Frequent concerns when applying for trade mark registration at the OHIM (Saarbrücken: VDM Publishing, 2011).
Dr Covarrubia and Dr Sarah Sargent co-manage TK totem, a weblog for indigenous rights.
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