Paola Zaragoza Cardenales

Brief biography

Paola Gabriela Zaragoza Cardenales is a New York bar attorney and has an SJD from Indiana University Bloomington, Maurer Law. She has an LLM from UC Berkeley and a JD-BBA from the University of Puerto. She has worked as a law clerk and accounting assistant in places such as the Federal District Court of Puerto Rico, Toyota, and Nissan. Currently she interns at the World Intellectual Property Organization in the Department of Trademarks, Industrial Design and Geographical Indicators. She runs a gluten-free gastronomic tourism blog called Zaragoza Cardenales (previously Culinary Road Trips Puerto Rico), publishing written and video posts. Her passions outside of law and food are hiking, painting, and traveling. She is a mentor to other students, started a pro bono for domestic violence prevention, participated in two Law Clinics, and lead student class directives. She also published various intellectual property and corporate law articles on Puerto Rico’s leading newspaper, the University of Puerto Rico’s Law School Journal, and independent magazines. Her goal is to have her intellectual property law firm that is like an incubator-accelerator for SMEs, entrepreneurs and non-for-profits in Puerto Rico.

 

 

Research interests

  • Intellectual Property
  • Trademarks
  • Geographical Indicators
  • Industrial Designs
  • SMEs
  • Non-for-profits
  • Entrepreneurship

 

Awards

  • Highest grade in Dissertation Fundamentals and Academic Legal Writing
  • Top 10 students with the highest GPA in entering class
  • Global Reach Scholarship Award 2017-2018
  • Honor Student from 2008-2013
  • Magna Cum Laude 2013

 

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