The main function of the Legal Consultancy Department is to provide – through our wide net of associated offices – legal counsel and addressing of issues related to intellectual and industrial property in the extrajudicial scope and in the Spanish Courts of Justice, in Community Courts and in foreign Courts. Such actions are normally conducted before specialized bodies such as Mercantile Courts, Community Trademark Courts, Regional Courts of First Instance…

As a result of the current relaunch, our legal consultancy department has expanded its scope of action to related or additional issues.

COMMERCIAL LAW

Intellectual and Industrial Property:

• Nullity actions and claims for registrations of inventions, distinctive signs or copyrights.
• Legal actions for infringement of the rights in virtue of the registered titles and compensation for damages.

Corporate Law:

• Mergers and Acquisitions of Companies
• Bankruptcy and temporary receivership

Marketing and Competence Law.

Media and Entertaiment Law.

Telecommunications Law, Maritime and Aerial Navigation Law.

Land and Municipal Law.

CRIMINAL LAW

• Crimes against Intellectual and Industrial Property.

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

• Appeals against resolutions from the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), the Office for the Harmonization of the Internal Market (OHIM) and the European Patent Office (EPO).

FORMALIZATION OF AGREEMENTS

• Trademark and distinctive sing sales agreement.
• Assignment agreement or licence agreements for patents, utility models or industrial designs.
• Technology transfer agreement and know-how.
• Confidentiality agreement.
• I+D cooperation agreement.
• Other technology cooperation agreements (franchise, “join-venture”, subcontracting, etc.).

OTHER ACTIONS

• Filing of Literary, Scientific and Artistic Works in the Intellectual Property Registry.
• Registration of Domain Names in the Internet
• Legal addressing in order to settle extrajudicially the conflicts arisen from the registration of domain names in the Internet, both before the WIPO and the Czech Courts (“.eu” domain).