Ramón G. Vela Córdova is an intellectual property attorney with over eighteen years of experience serving institutional and individual clients from Puerto Rico, the U.S. and other countries. He is a member of the bar of the Puerto Rico courts, the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Trademark Experience

Mr. Vela Córdova is a trademark attorney with broad experience in Puerto Rico and U.S. law.

Corporate IP Experience

Mr. Vela Córdova spent over seven years handling a large trademark portfolio for a major Puerto Rico law firm. He was responsible for trademark clearance, prosecution, maintenance, licensing, transfer, and enforcement in Puerto Rico for many world-renown brands.

U.S. Experience

Mr. Vela Córdova has also provided U.S. trademark clearance and prosecution services for major Puerto Rico clients. He is very familiar with USPTO procedures and practices there regularly.

Knowledge of PR Law

In addition, Mr. Vela Córdova was among a select group of attorneys who helped draft Puerto Rico's trademark regulation and legislation.

IP Experience

Mr. Vela Córdova has assisted leading Puerto Rico companies and authors with copyright protection and enforcement, enterprise software licensing, music licensing, trade secret protection, Internet law issues, distributor termination controversies, and other intellectual property matters.

Mr. Vela Córdova has also taught courses on trademark, copyright, and intellectual property law at the University of Puerto Rico's School of Law and the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico’s School of Law.

Other Experience

Mr. Vela Córdova was a law clerk to former Justice Anabelle Rodríguez Rodríguez of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court, and a former Assistant Counsel to the Governor of Puerto Rico. In addition to his IP practice, Mr. Vela Córdova has worked in appellate practice, general corporate law, and civil law. Before becoming an attorney, he earned a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught at Universities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.