Renzo Scavia
Renzo Scavia is the Managing Partner of Scavia & Scavia. He has an extensive practice and renowned career focused on assisting companies to comply with the regulations imposed by the General Direction of Medicines and Drugs of the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the intersection of intellectual property and such laws. Since 2004, his expertise comprises all branches of sanitary permits for pharmaceutical products, biologicals, biosimilars and medical device industries, natural health products, cosmetics and food.
In the pharmaceutical industry, he has provided strategic advice in all stages, from drug developments to manufacturing and clinical trial in order to obtain marketing authorisation approvals (MAA) and other kinds of health permits, with involvement in advertising, labelling and the monitoring of safety legal provisions.
Renzo works with clients providing strategic advice on approval and marketing strategies and intellectual property issues, and managing global product portfolios.
Renzo has drafted and filed submissions to the MoH and the National Institute for the Defense of the Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI).
Education 
- Diplomat in Notary and Registration Rights before the Peruvian Bar (2004).
- Attorney graduated with highest honors (summa cum laude) from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (1994).
Experience
- President of LES - Andean Community Region (2016-2020).
- Peru’s National Delegate before ASIPI (2012-2015).
- Secretary of the ASIPI New Technologies Committee (2012-2015).
- President of LES - Andean Community Region (2012-2014).
- Founding Partner and Managing Partner of Scavia & Scavia (2004).
- Head of the Intellectual Property and Competition Law Division of Estudio Olaechea (1994-2003).
- Assistant to the Ministry of Justice of Peru (1994).
- Assistant to the Intellectual Property and Competition Law Division of Estudio Olaechea (1992- 1993).
- Assistant to the areas of Civil Litigation and Corporate Law of Estudio Olaechea (1991-1992).
Memberships
- Vice-Chair of the LESI America’s Committee (2020)
- Member of the ASIPI Mediation and Arbitration Committee (2019).
- Member of the INTA Non-Traditional Marks Committee (2019).
- Member of the INTA Bulletins Committee (2018).
- Member of the Anticounterfeiting Committee INTA (2016-2017).
- Member of the INTA Latin America & Caribbean Subcommittee of Famous & Well-Known Marks Committee (2012-2013).
- Reappointed as member of the INTA Bulletin Committee (2010-2012).
- Member of the Lima Chamber of Commerce (2010).
- Member of the Board of Directors of APPI (2003-2005).
- Member of the Peruvian Multisectoral Commission of Domain Names (2002).
- Member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru (2000).
- Member of the ASIPI'S Information Technologies Committee (2000) and in charge of administering and updating ASIPI'S Web Page (2000-2005).
- Member of the International Association for the Protection of the Intellectual Property (AIPPI) (1997).
- Member of the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI) (1997).
- Member of the Peruvian Association of Intellectual Property (APPI) (1997).
- Member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) Bulletin Committee (2009).
- Member of the Peruvian Bar (1995).
Additional data
- Speaker on "Voluntary Licenses vs. Compulsory Licenses in respect of patents, under Andean Community common Patent Regulations", in an international conference organized by the Center of Studies for the Development of the Argentine Pharmaceutical Chemical Industry (CEDIQUIFA) (2019).
- President Licensing Executives Society (LES) - Andean Community Region (2016).
- Speaker on “Technology Transfer Rules and Regulation in America” in LESI Annual Conference held in Rio de Janeiro (2013).
- Speaker on “Legal Aspects of Entertainment Law” in the SIMBA International Seminar of Music and Scenic Arts held in Lima, Peru (2012).
- Moderator in the panel: "Commercialization of Digital Content” in the ASIPI Congress held in Punta del Este (2012).
- Lecturer on “Resolution of disputes between trademarks and domain names in Peru” in the “Workshop of update about conflicts between trademarks and domain names in Latin America, with special emphasis on the new GLTD’s” arranged by the Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI) and ASIPI (2010).
- Roundtable speaker on the topic: “Latin American Trademark Basics for Foreign Practitioners” at the INTA Annual Meeting held in Chicago (2007).
- Speaker on “Criminal actions for the defense of well-known trademarks in Peru” in an international conference in Guayaquil, Ecuador, organized by LCT Law, with the sponsorship of the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC), and the corporations Nike, Adidas, Levi’s and Canon (2009).
- Moderator during the international convention organized by LES Andean Community Section on “Decision 486 of the Andean Community would be impacted after the ratification of the TLT?” (2005).
- Speaker of the subject “Conflicts between trademarks and domain names” during the ASIPI Congress held in Dominican Republic (2004).
- Interviewed by several national TV shows about Intellectual Property and Domain Names issues.
Articles
- Diverse IP articles published in several Law reviews of INTA, ASIPI, AIPPI, "2011 Andean Yearbook of Intellectual Rights", Marcasur, among others.
"Scavia & Scavia is the result of the entrepreneurship, effort and tenacity of its founder and Managing Partner Renzo Scavia, who has an extensive and renowned career focused in the field of Intellectual Property and Competition Law."
