Intellectual Property
Global Guide 2024 : Spain
Band 2
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Provided by Gómez-Acebo & Pombo
We are undisputed leaders in intellectual property and technology, as recognised in the most prestigious international directories.
We offer a comprehensive service in the field of advice, contractual practice and, particularly, litigation.
The size of our practice allows us to simultaneously handle various issues that are highly complex and international in scale.
All our lawyers are experienced in litigation and provide innovative solutions to our clients. We are active in all technological sectors and have a broad knowledge of our clients' industrial sectors.
Our services include:
1. Industrial property:
- Patents, models and designs.
- Distinctive signs (trademarks and trade names) and brand protection.
- Designations of origin and geographical indications of origin.
- Unfair competition
2. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology law
3. Technology:
- Protection of trade secrets and know-how
- Transfer of intangible company assets
- Digital business
4. Copyright:
- Rights of authors, publishers, producers, artists, broadcasters and software and database manufacturers.
- Protection and defence of works of all kinds, audio-visual and phonographic recordings, computer programmes, computer applications, operating systems and databases.
- Collecting societies.
- Rights of the user of intellectual creations.
5. Computer law
6. E-commerce
7. Personal data protection
8. Use of personal name, rights to honour and privacy
9. Leisure and entertainment law
10. Advertising law and advertising contracts.
11. Law of franchises
Chambers Review
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo offers excellent coverage of numerous areas of IP law. The law firm handles patent disputes on behalf of a varied client list that includes pharmaceutical companies, telecoms companies and manufacturers of biosimilar products. The team has experience in trade mark infringement and cancellation actions brought before Spain's civil courts or the EU trade mark court in Alicante. It assists with administrative proceedings seeking to block or overturn the award of Spanish trade marks. Gómez-Acebo & Pombo's expertise extends to digital business and copyright issues.
Work Highlights
- Gómez-Acebo & Pombo represented INTERPORC and Provacuno against Foods for Tomorrow in a dispute for allegedly misleading and denigrating advertising campaign.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The lawyers at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo are very commercially minded, with a practical approach."
"They are great advisers."
"They explain things very well."
"The lawyers at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo are very commercially minded, with a practical approach."
"They are great advisers."
"They explain things very well."
Notable Practitioners
Jesús Muñoz-Delgado is a key contact at the firm for patent litigation, with notable experience in technology and engineering patent disputes. He attracts attention for his work on the Spanish aspects of biosimilar products.
"He is a magnificent lawyer."
Sofia Martínez-Almeida climbs the rankings as a result of strong market support. She is best known for her expertise in trade mark litigation for prominent Spanish and international clients.
"She is always looking for the best outcome for us."
Mónica Esteve advises clients on trade mark issues and trade secrets mandates.
"She had to deal with a very complicated legal process, and she efficiently put into place legal argumentation and a strategy."
Ranked Lawyers at
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo
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