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I have always been interested in understanding how things work, while others merely use them.

Lawyer focused on intellectual property, strategic litigation and regulatory structures connected to technology, authorship and artificial intelligence.

More than 14 years of legal practice in litigation, industrial property and highly regulated sectors, including experience within the legal department of a global pharmaceutical company and current practice as a senior lawyer at LMT Abogados, a Mexican firm focused on intellectual property, litigation and sports law.

Practice: Litigation, intellectual property and technology regulation, from an institutional practice focused on trademarks, enforcement, advertising and contemporary systems of authorship.
Field: Technology, innovation, writing, and history.
Operation: Reading, research, and ideas in progress.
Method: Conflict, language, evidence, memory, and form.

Adner Valle
Attorney in industrial property, artificial intelligence, and strategic litigation.
More than 14 years of experience in legal practice and advisory in highly regulated environments.

Law provided order to a part of my thought; curiosity took care of opening it up.

A Way of Seeing

I am more interested in structures than surfaces.

This way of seeing translates into how I approach complex legal conflicts.

Over time, law ceased to be just a field of work and became a way of understanding broader structures.

I have worked in civil, administrative, and constitutional litigation, with an emphasis on industrial property. In that journey, I have worked on the defense of trademarks and patents, in proceedings before the IMPI, and in the structuring of legal strategies for companies in highly regulated sectors—including experience within the legal department of a global pharmaceutical company, which allowed me to understand how legal decisions are made from within and to align my practice with those very conditions.

I tend to focus on the logic that sustains a position, the language that makes an idea defensible, the way a dispute is organized, and the elements that make visible what, at first glance, seems diffuse.

Perhaps that is why I have never been particularly interested in thinking in closed compartments. I am more drawn to the point where different subjects begin to touch, overlap, or become necessary to one another.

I am especially attracted to matters that require crossing levels of reading: the technical with the human, the legal with the historical, the normative with the strategic.

Center of Gravity

I am interested in systems when they stop appearing neutral.

I am interested in observing what rules operate beneath a decision, what language makes a stance defensible, what structure sustains an institution, what form makes an idea legible, and what mechanisms determine what is preserved, what is transformed, and what disappears.

That is why law has never been, for me, an isolated subject. It has been an especially rigorous entry point into larger problems: authority, interpretation, conflict, adaptation, memory, technique, and power.

Legal practice remains my primary focus. But it does not exhaust the field of what I am interested in thinking about.

Focus

My focus is on complex industrial property conflicts, including infringements, nullities, and protection strategies in emerging technological contexts, particularly in artificial intelligence.

From that practice, I work as an industrial property attorney in Mexico, with sustained attention to patent litigation and the definition of strategies for the protection and defense of trademarks before the IMPI when innovation demands a simultaneous legal and technical reading.

What I Found in the Law

For a long time, I thought my natural inclination was closer to technology than to law.

I was interested in computers, systems, the logic behind tools, and that feeling that there was always something new to learn. At another point in my life, I likely would have studied something closer to engineering or computing.

But law appeared as another form—more human, more conflict-driven, and more complex—of that same fascination.

I found a discipline that touches science, the market, language, history, institutions, conduct, power, and technique all at once.

Perhaps that is why it remains intellectually inexhaustible to me: every new matter demands learning once again.

Outside the File

Chess

For its way of making visible structure, anticipation, and the cost of a poor reading.

I am especially interested in the logic of the pawn: the piece traditionally assigned the least value, but which in certain positions can become decisive; the only one that can completely transform and, at the same time, one of the few whose movement does not allow for a return.

There are decisions that resemble that.

Carnivorous Plants

Because they challenge apparently obvious intuitions about function, beauty, and violence.

They interest me as living forms of extreme adaptation: organisms that did not survive by obeying expectations, but by radically modifying their strategy.

In a sense, they teach a lesson that also appears in law, history, and technique: evolving does not always mean growing in a straight line; sometimes it means deviating, specializing, or disappearing.

Technology and Artificial Intelligence

For their ability to modify not only tools, but criteria for reading, decision, and authority.

From a very young age, I was interested in that world for a simple reason: it was always changing. There was always something new to learn, understand, test, or dismantle.

AI interests me also for its practical and almost philosophical dimension: it is not enough to know a tool; one must learn to structure the instruction, iterate, correct, adjust, and try again until a better result is obtained.

In that regard, it is quite similar to life, thought, and serious work.

Video Games

When they manage to build systems, atmospheres, and decisions with true density.

I am interested in them for their ability to design worlds with their own rules, where the experience depends not only on the story, but also on the structure, exploration, error, repetition, and learning.

They also serve as an important reminder: not all valuable thought occurs under rigidity. Sometimes, better understanding also involves playing, losing oneself, failing, persisting, and trying again.