Industrial property and intellectual property

All the legal support necessary to guarantee the exclusivity of your distinctive emblems, inventions, industrial designs and intellectual creations.

• Prior searches and research into patent registrations, utility models, trademarks, commercial names and industrial designs at the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office and international organisations.
• Registration of patents, utility models, trademarks and industrial designs at the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM), the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) –community trademarks and community designs-, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) –international trademarks and PCT international patents-, and the European Patent Office (EPO) - European patents.
• Monitoring and follow-up of applications with alerts regarding applications for patents and trademarks that breach our clients’ priority rights.
• Presentation of opposition to risk of confusion with similar trademarks, improper use of the notoriety or renown of distinctive emblems, erroneous indication of designations of geographical origin and other prohibitions. Opposition to the award of patents or utility models for breach of legal requirements.
• Lodging of administrative and contentious-administrative action against the award or rejection of any industrial property application.
• Registration of works of art, photography, painting, drawing, literary publications, audiovisual recordings, graphic design, architectural and engineering projects, creation of databases, and computer programs. Contracts assigning copyright exploitation rights, copyright.
• Comprehensive legal advice on the creation, acquisition, assignment and transfer of rights of industrial property, intellectual property and corporate commercial image, advice on the most suitable ways of safeguarding these, and legal defence and lodging of suits before the Courts of Justice in any event of imitation, usurpation or violation of rights by third parties.

Civil law

Effective protection to guarantee your rights in any contract, transaction or private legal action

• Separation, divorce, marriage annulment, custody of minors, parental authority, tutorship, award of alimony, change in marital status.
• Lease contracts for residences or for business premises, evictions for non-payment, rent recovery, termination for breach of contract.
• Residents’ associations, drafting of bylaws, collection of dues, objection to bylaws, liability suits against governing bodies, legal action against defective workmanship.
• Purchase-sale contracts for rural estates, plots of land or residences, cessions, beneficial interests, declarations of new building work, horizontal property division, registrations in the land registry.
• Wills, legacies, intestate proceedings, legal division of inheritance.
• Image rights: exploitation, assignment, breach of image rights
• Claims for breach of contract, action to prevail and recover damages.

Commercial law and information society

Legal advice on the management of your company, business, banking or commercial transaction

• Foundation of companies, drawing up and modification of bylaws, family business protocol, increase and reduction of capital, restructuring, merger, winding up and liquidation of companies.
• Contracts of purchase-sale of goods, supply, sale in instalments, purchase options, general terms and conditions.
• Contracts of business lease, transfer, building work and services, franchise, distribution, commission or representation.
• Merchandising, advice and technical assistance, know-how or technology transfer.
• Unfair competition: acts of confusion, deceit, imitation, comparison, denigration, exploitation of third-party reputation, breach of secrets and fraudulent action.
• Voluntary or involuntary declaration of bankruptcy, recovery of unpaid debts, legal action for non-compliance with obligations.
• Registration of Internet domain, registration with the Commercial Registry, recovery of domains, out-of-court settlement of discrepancies arising from domain registration, drafting of legal clauses for use on web pages.
• IT audits: protection of computer files, back-up document, declaration of files with the Data Protection Agency.