Our Team

Laura Beléndez-Ferrero

Ms. Beléndez achieved a Law Masters Degree in Intellectual Property from George Washington University.   Her twenty years’ experience encompasses commercial and intellectual property litigation.   Furthermore, she handles copyright registrations before the U.S. Copyright Office and trademark registrations in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and Puerto Rico, Trademark Registry.  She has also participated in both trademark oppositions and cancellations proceeding before these forums.  Ms. Beléndez has also handled domain name disputes and continuously prepares licensing and coexistence trademark agreements.  She has also handled trade secret and right of publicity negotiations and litigation.

Ms. Beléndez has an extensive experience litigating commercial cases, including collection of moneys and breach of contract.  She has also handled various trademark and copyright infringement cases.  As such, she has served as leading counsel in several injunction hearings and has argued before the First Circuit of Appeals on various occasions on copyright and trademark matters. 

Also, Ms. Beléndez routinely prepares franchise agreements and software licensing agreement.  In addition, she routinely negotiates and drafts works made for hire and non-disclosure agreements.

Ms. Beléndez has given various seminars on intellectual property matters and has published articles on the subject.  She is admitted to practice before Puerto Rico and New York.

Published Cases

Walter Mercado v. Bart Enterprises, 671 F.3d 12 (2011)
Alicea v. Puerto Rico Tourism Co., 396 F.3d 46 (2012)
Estate of Hevia v. Portrio Corporation, 2007 WL 9677036
Cordova Dexter v. Sucn. Ferraiuoli, 182 D.P.R. 541 (2011)
Lamex Foods v. Audeliz Lebrón, 2010 WL 2730568
Gueits Colon v. De Jesus, 177 F.Supp. 2d (2001)
Colon v. Fraticelli, 181 F. Supp. 2d 48 (2002)
Díaz Reyes v. Police Dept., 153 F.Supp. 2d 74 (2001)
Lamex Foods v. Audeliz Lebrón, 2010 WL 1538814

Angel Carro

Mr. Caro has over 20 years of experience in Intellectual Property and Commercial Litigation cases. He has litigated every aspect of copyright law and licensing in the representation of composers, singers, publishers and performance rights organizations. Earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Insurance and a Master of Business Administration in Materials and Logistic Management, both, from Michigan State University. While in Michigan State he was the President of the Handicapper Student Council and was instrumental in turning the University state of the art Jack Breslin Sport Arena Stadium in the most accessible facility of its kind within the Big Ten University Conference in addition to making the MSU’s Football Stadium accessible to wheelchair users.

He earned a Juris Doctor from the Law School of the University of Puerto Rico in 1998 and did a summer internship with Hon. Gilberto Gierbolini, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. At various times, worked and collaborated with Eugenio C. Romero, Esq., Homero González, Esq., Freddy Pérez González, Esq., Jane Becker Whitaker, Esq. and Hoglund & Pamias, LLC. From 2001 to 2008 was the in-house counsel to the performance rights society known as ACEMLA (Asociación de Compositores y Editores de Música Latino Americana) and the music publisher known as LAMCO (Latin American Music Company, Inc.)

Mr. Caro has represented a great variety of composers, singers, artists and entertainment media personalities in the Puerto Rican media. In fact, he was the lead counsel for Salsa composer Catalino “Tite” Curet Alonso from 2001 until the composer’s death in August of 2003. He has represented clients before the U.S. Copyright Office, the Puerto Rico Department of State and the United States Patents and Trademark Office and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Has litigated the creation of a source code of a computer program utilized by a major Puerto Rican bank. Has represented clients in the United States Supreme Court, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals. Negotiated music licensing agreements with various music business entities in countries like United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Spain and Italy.

During the previous 15 years he has litigated against the following entities: Universal, Inc., Fania Records, Sonido, Inc., Peer International Corp., Southern Music Publishing Corp., EMI Catalogue Partnership, Sony Publishing Inc., ASCAP (American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers), BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.), GVL, Inc., Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Televicentro de Puerto Rico (“TV Channel 4"), Goya Foods, Inc., Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation (“TV Channel 6"), Univision, Z-93, KQ-105, Notiuno, Tommy Muñiz Productions, Inc.,  Radio Isla,  Sistema 102, Salsoul, El Mundo Broadcasting Corp., Radio Uno Group, Claridad Newspaper, Roy Brown, Disco Hit Productions, Inc., Vidal Investment Inc., VI Music, Inc., Pentagrama, Music Zone, Interamerican University, Ponce Catholic University, Universal Music Publishing MGB, S.A. de C.V.; EMI Music Mexico, S.A. de C.V.; Televisa International; Televisa, S.A. de C.V., Editorial Televisa Puerto Rico, Inc

Eida K. Caraballo

Eida K. Caraballo is a highly skilled intellectual property attorney with extensive knowledge and experience in working with trademarks and copyrights. She’s been working with intellectual property matters since 2012, earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 2014 and was officially admitted as a Puerto Rico bar member in 2015. She has worked closely with a wide array of clients, such as entrepreneurs, local businesses and international corporations to actively safeguard intellectual property rights. Most of her work focuses on the registration and prosecution of trademarks in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Puerto Rico Trademark and Trade Name Office and copyright registration in the United States Copyright Office and the Puerto Rico Intellectual Property Registry; and, the preparation of intellectual property agreements.