Practice Expertise

  • Competition & Antitrust
  • Data Security & Information
  • Advertising
  • Intellectual Property

Areas of Practice

  • Advertising
  • Competition & Antitrust
  • Data Security & Information
  • Intellectual Property
  • Marketing & Consumer Protection
  • Privacy
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WSG Practice Industries

WSG Leadership

  • Antitrust Group - Member
  • Compliance Group - Member
  • Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group - Member

Profile

During more than 20 years in law practice, Uri has won accolades from such renowned publications as The Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and Latin Lawyer. He has written numerous articles and lectured at high-level conferences on topics relating to competition law, advertising, consumer protection and intellectual property. The newspaper, El Financiaro, has listed him as a top attorney in their report, “40 under 40.” Uri drafted the Better Business Manual Relative to Consumers that Costa Rica’s Consumer Protection authority adopted as their guidelines for the private sector. In addition, he is the co-author of the official guidelines for the application of competition regulations issued by the telecommunications sector regulation agency. His present practice areas include Competition & Antitrust, Privacy, Data Security & Information, Advertising, Marketing & Consumer Protection, and Intellectual Property. In Competition & Antitrust, he provides invaluable assistance in the approval of mergers, with the institution of defense-related actions before the relevant authorities, and the execution of audits and compliance programs helping to prevent and avoid anti-competitive activity. In Advertising, Marketing & Consumer Protection, Uri oversees the review of advertisement materials, image rights, promotions, unfair competition, and other consumer matters. His Intellectual Property practice involves complex litigation on trademarks and copyrights, anti-counterfeiting, and other concerns related to registration, protection, defense and enforcement of intellectual property rights. Uri graduated with honors from the Universidad de Costa Rica in 1996. In 2001, he earned a postgraduate degree in Competition Law from King’s College of the University of London. Uri is also certified to act as commercial arbitrator by the Universidad Cooperación Internacional. For over ten years he was a member of the national competition authority, for which he also served as Chairman. Both the World Bank and the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development have retained his services for regulatory and consumer protection issues. Uri is actively involved in the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance, an international organization of lawyers with expert knowledge of advertising, marketing and promotion law, of which BLP is the exclusive representative for Costa Rica. In addition, Uri is a member of the International Trademark Association and the Inter-American Intellectual Property Association. Uri is based in San José.

Areas of Practice

  • Advertising
  • Competition & Antitrust
  • Data Security & Information
  • Intellectual Property
  • Marketing & Consumer Protection
  • Privacy

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