Sandra Chicoma specializes in Intellectual Property, Unfair Competition, Consumer Protection and Free Competition. She provides advice on the analysis of possibility to register, registry, renewals and modifications of distinctive signs, as well as obtaining registration of patents, industrial designs, utility models, copyright and other intellectual property rights. She has advised Unilever NV in the application and obtaining registration of its patents, which includes the patent of name "Composition and process for the purification of contaminated water". She executes and faces oppositions, cancellation actions, nullities and actions for infraction before the INDECOPI. She also designs, negotiates and executes licensing, transfer and coexistence of distinctive signs and other intellectual property rights.

In the field of copyright, she negotiates and prepares license agreements with collective management societies and with private companies that offer licenses for musical works. She actively participates in the elaboration of directives and laws in the matter of consumer protection, providing suggestions and comments to the published bills.

Sandra joined CMS Grau as a trainee in 2004 and became an Associate in 2007. Since then she has specialized in air transport companies, retail stores, supermarkets, financial companies, food and beverage companies, and concession vehicle companies.

These kind of companies face the following challenges and problems that Sandra has identified:

• The questioning of the competition attributed by INDECOPI to investigate and / or sanction the companies of the financial system when there is another regulator for this purpose: the Superintendence of Banking and Insurance.

• The questioning of the sanctioning power of INDECOPI and the application of the Consumer Protection and Protection Code outside the framework of the Montreal Convention that regulates international air transport

• The power conferred by ONAGI to investigate and sanction alleged infringements related to the realization of commercial promotions, even though the Office no longer has such powers.

Facing this, Sandra anticipates possible areas for improvement, thanks to her detailed knowledge of the business and development in the market of her customers, which allows her to identify initiatives and opportunities for improvement in the offer of her products and services.

Also, taking into account her background and experience, for the acquittal of consultation and advice in litigation she uses as tools not only the legal norms but also the jurisprudence and doctrine.