Rovira, Gonzalo

Gonzalo Rovira, is currently Director of Intellectual Property & Licensing for Latin America at Bayer Group. He born in 1972. He is a patent lawyer. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) and a Master of Intellectual Property and Commerce degree from the Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire, USA. He is a registered Intellectual Property Agent.

Gonzalo started his professional career in the Judiciary at the National Commercial Court No. 2 and then at the National Commercial Court of Appeals, Division D where he served as clerk of former Justice Carlos M. Rotman. In 1999 Gonzalo joined Brons & Salas firm as associate in the corporate law department and in 2003 he joined the intellectual and industrial property department.

In 2005 Gonzalo joined Monsanto Company serving as in-house IP counsel at the Mystic Research site in Connecticut, USA. He left this role in 2009 to serve as IP Legal Manager for Latin America South region (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay).

After serving in this position until 2014, he assumed the position of Senior IP Manager of the Latin American Operations. In this position, Gonzalo led the IP strategy to secure the IP rights for the launch of multiple new agbiotech products that are commercially successful in the Latin America region.

In 2019, Gonzalo became Legal Director for IP and Licensing for Latin America for Bayer Group. Based in Buenos Aires, Gonzalo handles the IP and Licensing issues for the Pharmaceutical, Consumer Health and Crop Science divisions. He takes care of the IP and licensing strategy for the region, including IP advocacy to secure and defend Bayer’s IP rights in the region that results in significant increases in productivity and revenue growth in the region.

Gonzalo has been awarded with the Latin America Counsel Awards, Latam IP counsel of the year in 2019 and with the IP Stars Awards in 2017 and 2021. Gonzalo serves as co-Chairman of the IP Committee at the AmCham Argentina, Past President of the ACC Argentina, Director of the Intellectual Property Institute for the Argentina Association of Constitutional Justice (AAJC), Member of AIPLA, and Member of the Cabinet at the Global Intellectual Property Alliance (GLIPA) and Lead of the Latin America Group of the GLIPA.

Gonzalo has written the following publications: Coauthor, “Remedies under Security Interests” (autor del subcapítulo “Introducción a las garantías reales - Principios generales y clasificación”), coeditores, Ian M. Fletcher y Odd Swarting, Kluwer Law International and International Bar Association, London (2002). Author, Argentina Chapter “Legal Protection for Plant Varieties in Argentina”, Editor Terralex, IP Bulletin –8^th. Edition- Frankfurtam Main, June 2003. Author, “New Amendments to the Argentina Patent Law”, Editor Terralex, IP Bulletin –9^th. Edition- Frankfurtam Main, June 2004. Author, “Patentability Criteria for Biotechnology Inventions applied to Plants”, Editor La Ley, Intellectual Property Manual, 1^st. Edition- Buenos Aires November 2010. Author, “Legal Protection System for Plant Varieties and Ag- Biotech Inventions”, Editor La Ley, Ciencia y Poder Judicial, La Evidencia Científica en el Proceso Judicial, - 1st. Edition- Buenos Aires November 2013. Author, “Ag-Biotechnology Protection in South America”, -Editor CTC Legal Media, The Patent Lawyer, Edition July/August 2016, Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom (2016).

Gonzalo is an acting professor of Master of Intellectual Property and Innovation at the Universidad de San Andrés, School of Law, and was guest lecturer at different IP conferences such as the International Association of Intellectual Property Annual Meetings (AIPPI), Brazilian Association of Intellectual Property Annual Meetings (ABPI), Argentina Industrial Property Agents Annual Meetings (AAAPI), Seed Association of Americas Annual Meeting (SAA), Interamerican Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), the master’s in intellectual property and new technologies (Universidad Austral) and a master’s in business law (Universidad Católica Argentina).

Gonzalo is married with Josefina and father of three teenager, Martina 22 year-old, Lucy 18 year-old and Mariano 14 year-old. In his free time,  Gonzalo coaches rugby at the  Buenos Aires University Club (C.U.B.A) for the juniors league where his son Mariano plays, and also enjoys playing golf.