Intellectual Property

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The Garrigues Intellectual Property service (Garrigues IP) is renowned for its unique combination of exceptional IP know-how and the firm's expertise in other areas. Our team is made up of industrial property agents, engineers, designers, economists and lawyers, enabling us to provide 360º advice.

We protect our clients’ intangible assets from an integral, practical and strategic standpoint. To so do, we work in conjunction with the tax, antitrust, labor and employment, administrative law and criminal law departments of Garrigues.

The dedication, meticulous approach and integrity of our professionals has won the trust of clients ranging from startups to major multinationals. Our hard work is reflected in our success rate.

We like to get to know our clients’ business in order to offer definitive solutions. We prefer negotiation to litigation and our priority is to resolve issues as quickly, economically and effectively as possible, but we are experts in handling complex lawsuits if the need so arises. Our lawyers are particularly valued for their ability to deliver innovative and highly sophisticated solutions in situations of uncertainty.

The dedication, quality and leadership of the Garrigues Intellectual Property service has been recognized by the most prestigious international directories, in which our clients have endorsed the excellence of our work.

Our services

  • Our team has extensive experience in litigation and arbitration proceedings in relation to industrial and intellectual property, digital businesses, unfair competition and advertising.
  • Broad expertise in advising digital businesses, including online stores, content platforms, search engines, social networks and web3 (metaverse, NFTs, AR, VR and XR).
  • Audiovisual law, musical law, publishing law and art law. Advice on collective bargaining in relation to IP rights, including independent management entities.
  • Multidisciplinary advice on patents, trade secrets, plant varieties and technology transfer.
  • Advice on contractual and contentious matters, with a view to protecting fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression and information and the right to honor, privacy and personal portrayal.
  • Advice on the registration of trademarks, patents and industrial designs through our own industrial property agency.

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Global heads

Carolina Pina Sánchez - Garrigues

Carolina Pina

+34 91 514 52 00

Madrid

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João Miranda

+351 213 821 200

Lisbon

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Publications

  • SEP Regulation: the draft regulation concerning the licensing of standard essential patents takes a significant step towards becoming law

    The European Parliament has approved the Regulation on Standard Essential Patents, whose main objective is to facilitate the  licensing of these patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. The text must be still approved by the Member…

  • 2024: main new legislation needing to be considered by companies in Spain

    Professionals in the various practice areas at Garrigues take a look, from all angles of business law, at the main new legislation that companies will face in the coming year.

  • One of the last pending regulations for the development of the General Audiovisual Communications Act is submitted to public hearing

    The Ministry of Economic Affairs has published today (here) the draft royal decree regulating the requirements for being considered a “special interest user”. This regulation is subject to a public hearing. Interested parties may submit their…

  • Generative AI: Can data models be protected?

    Data models, which are the “brain” of artificial intelligence systems cannot be protected under intellectual property law. In principle, they are not patentable either, but they could perhaps be protected as trade secrets. Let’s take a look at what…