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Mónica Bonnett

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Monica Bonnet

Mónica Bonnett

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Mónica Bonnett is the Firm’s Life Sciences and Intellectual Property practice groups partner. Over the last two decades, she has acquired extensive experience in the Life Sciences sector counseling a wide range of clients on patents, industrial designs, business secrets, health registrations, plant varieties, and cannabis. Her experience includes all processes related to patent prosecution, industrial designs, including litigation and dispute resolution, technology transfer, consulting and patent technology searches in Latin America. She is particularly skilled in handling large portfolios of both human and animal health registrations in Latin America. Similarly, Monica has advised a wide range of clients on health law matters and has been cooperating in many transactions of the health care sector.

In addition, Monica is also known for being responsible of designing efficient structures for filing and obtaining sanitary registrations for food and beverages, medical devices, drugs, dietary supplements, household grooming products, personal care products, cannabis and cosmetics, as well as veterinary drugs, animal cosmetics and pet Food. As well, Monica possesses extensive experience regarding the following matters: import and export of seeds, human genetic material, plant variety protection in Latin America and fertilizer licensing. 

She combines her knowledge on patents, confidential information, know how, proprietary information and trade secrets in Industrial Property consulting, helping to build a value chain of intangible assets, to structure confidential information protocols and to generate a value chain of knowledge to turn it into an Industrial Property asset. As a consequence, her experience has allowed her to participate in complex due diligences in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cannabis, food & beverage, medical devices and clinical trials industries, among others. 

Finally, Monica is recognized for her legal advice and guidance on complex health care matters such as ethics committees, clinical trials, structuring business models for controlled substances, import and export of genetic material. Her national and multinational clients have recognized Monica for the quality-driven counsel provided and for her efficient and result-oriented advice.

Experience

  • Local and multinational companies: Advising clients in connection with the protection of their patent portfolios, plant varieties and industrial designs in the Latin American region, both in the filing & prosecution, defense, maintenance of rights and design of strategies on how to make the filing projects of the portfolios in the most cost efficient way in the region and with deep legal-technical knowledge.
  • Multilevel companies, local and multinational: Advising clients in the design of their strategies on how to obtain their sanitary registrations in the Latin American region, for the pet food industry, dietary supplements, medical devices, drugs, cosmetics, beverages & food, personal care products, which has allowed them to do business in the region by efficiently having marketing/manufacturing permits.
  • Local and multinational online platforms: Advising clients on advertising issues from the regulatory point of view in the Latin American region.  Design of strategies to make possible the business of advertising and brokering products subject to health registrations in online platforms, which has facilitated the client's business purpose and has avoided sanctions from regulatory authorities.
  • National and multinational companies: Advice to clients in a wide range of sanitary safety processes, measures and sanitary processes before the INVIMA, as well as sanctioning processes of the Health Secretariats and other authorities with regulatory powers.
  • National and multinational companies: Advice on structuring business models in the health and care industry as well as consulting on clinical trials, ethics committees, import and export of human genetic material.
  • Research Entities: Advice on the structuring of research, science and technology regulations for R&D and clinical research projects.
  • National and multinational companies: Advice on the implementation of innovation systems, confidential information protocols, processes for the generation of intellectual property strategies & policies and customized intellectual property counseling.
  • Local pharmaceutical companies: Advice for the structuring of strategies for freedom to operate and technological searches in order to know business opportunities for drugs in the Colombian market and clear doubts about the freedom to operate.
  • Local and multinational companies: Analysis of regulatory aspects in complex due diligences during mergers and acquisitions transactions, in order to determine not only the viability of the products and the success of the transaction, but also the best way to materialize the transaction before the regulatory entities INVIMA and ICA.

Recognition

  • The Legal 500 2025: Life Sciences, Next Generation Partners.
  • Chambers Latin America 2025: Intellectual Property (Band 4).
  • Chambers Latin America 2025: Ciencias de la Vida (Banda 3).

Insights

  • "Historical Overview on the Evolution and Legislation of Cannabis in Latin America", Meritas, 2023
  • "Aspectos Legales de la Vacuna del Covid-19", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2020
  • "La Inteligencia Tecnológica, La Ruta a Seguir", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2020
  • "Seguridad para Producir Fórmulas Magistrales de Cannabis", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2020
  • "Innovación y Propiedad Intelectual Tendencias del Siglo XXI", Coordinadora y co-acutora, Tirant LoBlanch, Colombia, 2019
  • "Global Cannbabis Industry: The Essential Primer", Meritas, 2019
  • "Expanding Cannabis Operations in Latin America & The Caribbean", Meritas, 2019
  • "Regulación de información confidencial en el país", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2018
  • "Desafíos de Protección de Vida en Colombia", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2017
  • "Los Recursos de la Gestión de la Innovación", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2017

Activities and Affiliations

  • Coordinator of the Group of Study for Cannabis legislation in Latam Countries, ASIPI, 2021 – 2023
  • Founder and Co-Chair of the Women in Intellectual Property Group in Colombia
  • Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI)
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
  • International Trademark Association (INTA)

Prior and Present Employment

  • Partner, Dentons Cardenas & Cardenas 2023 – Present
  • Senior Associate, Law Firm, 2014 – 2023
  • Intellectual Property Commercial Agent, Pons Patentes y Marcas Internacionales S.L., 2013 – 2014
  • I.P. Attorney, Law Firm, 2007 – 2010
  • Patent Associate Attorney, Law Firm, 2003 – 2007
  • Patent Attorney, Law Firm, 1996 – 2002
 

Contact information

BogotáLocal time
D+57 601 746 7000
 

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Areas of focus

  • Cannabis
  • Intellectual Property and Technology
  • Life Sciences and Health Care
  • Retail
  • Technology

Education

Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2002, Specialization in Competition and Consumer Law

Universidad del Rosario, 1997, Lawyer

Admissions and qualifications

Colombia

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish

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