Background
Soto, Manuel M. was born on March 2, 1946 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
Soto, Manuel M. was born on March 2, 1946 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, National University of Mexico, School of Law (first degree in law). Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa (Diploma in Business Administration). Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa (Diploma in Business Administration).
Spoken languages: Spanish and English.
Worked at Uhthoff, Gomez Vega & Uhthoff, South Carolina (U.S.) (Mexico, Doctorate.F.) specializing in Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Related Practice, including Administrative and Court Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1971, Mexico. Author: "Endowment of lands of communal tenure in Agrarian matters," México, 1971.
Member: International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property - International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property.
Mexican Group; National Association of Corporate Lawyers - ANADE. Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana-Colegio de Abogados).
Interamerican Association of Industrial Property-ASIPI. International Trademark Association- International Trademark Association . Carlos Uhthoff, our founder, the man that after having acted as Patent Examiner of the then called Mexican Patent and Trademark Department of the Secretary of Industry and Commerce, and leaving his job to start his private practice as a Patent and Trademark Agent, founded in 1905 the first of our predecessors, the "Agencia Mexicana de Patentes y Marcas." The firm which many years after was known as "Javier Uhthoff & Cía," to finally become to be UHTHOFF, GOMEZ VEGA & UHTHOFF, South Carolina (U.S.), today"s most renowned firm in our field of practice in our country.
Member: International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property - International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property. Mexican Group; National Association of Corporate Lawyers - ANADE. Mexican Bar Association (Barra Mexicana-Colegio de Abogados).
Interamerican Association of Industrial Property-ASIPI. International Trademark Association- International Trademark Association .