Experience

María Cristina joined our firm in 2012 as a Patent Engineer.

She specializes in patents in the chemical and biotechnological area, in particular, pharmaceutical, agrochemical, polymer, chemical process, mining and food patents. She also has experience in drafting, analyzing and processing patent applications, including prior art searches with patentability analysis.

She has practical experience in basic and applied science in Chile (CIByB – Universidad de Chile) and in the United States. (Mallinckrodt Center for Molecular Pharmacology Research – MGH) in protein expression and purification, mammalian cell culture and bireactor scaling.

Education

• Course on Writing Patent Applications, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) with INAPI, 2013.
• Course on Intellectual Property and Patents, WIPO, 2012.
• Civil Chemical Engineer, Universidad de Chile, 2002.
• Civil Engineer in Biotechnology, Universidad de Chile, 2002.

Admissions

• Chile, 2002.

Languages

• Spanish and English.