LAW PRACTICE AREAS

Your digital lawyer and intellectual property experts advise you concerning certain risks that are inherent to entrepreneurship:

• How to address your project.
• How to protect your distinctive signs, your inventions, and your creations, namely the elements that make your business original and different.
• How to establish your business model in order to avoid conflicts with other competitors and / or public authorities.
• How to respect the confidentiality and protect personal data.
• How to sell your products / service in compliance with the rights of consumers and users …

The focus of our action centres on the concurrent practices or, said in a less technical way, on the laws that regulates the market participation. Especially when the company operates through digital media.
We help entrepreneurs and undertakings to compete in the market, providing their business with the necessary legal coverage.

STARTUPS

Do you have a business idea that you think may be work? Do you want to get it out, but you do not really know how to start? We advise you on everything you need to make your project a reality:

• Setting up a company in Spain.
• Partner agreements.
• Financing and investment contracts.
• Data Protection.
• Trademark, designs and patents.
• Copyright.
• Competition law.

Learn about the promotions we offer through our “Digital Start-up Plan”: a small boost for entrepreneurs of technologically advanced projects.

DIGITAL LAW AND
E-COMMERCE

If your business is running by digital means and Internet it is necessary that you take into account many factors:

• Privacy and data protection.
• Not infringing third parties’ intellectual property rights, and defending your own creations and distinctive signs.
• Antitrust rules.
• Possible conflicts with operators of the traditional economy.
• Domain names conflicts.
• Specialized contracts.

TRADEMARKS AND OTHER DISTINCTIVE SIGNS

The corporative image is at least as important as your product or your service. We have gained a wide-ranging experience as trademarks attorneys. We help you to develop the best brand project, step by step:

• Applications for registration of trademarks, designs and trade names before national, European and international organizations.
• Conflicts with other applicants or trademark owners.
• National, European and international follow-up.
• Licenses and other forms of exploitation.
• Specialized contracts.
• Judicial and extrajudicial defence of your trademark against third parties.

PATENTS, TRADE SECRETS, AND KNOW-HOW

Frequently, the success of your business is based on a knowledge that only you possess or has rights to exploit. With a consolidated experience as intellectual property lawyers, we are specialists in protecting said assets.

• Applications for registrations of patents.
• Non-disclosure agreements.
• Management and protection of trade and industrial secrets.
• Management and protection of know-how.
• Licensing, assignment, transfer, collaboration and other forms of knowledge sharing.
• Judicial and extrajudicial defence of your assets against third parties, employees, collaborators.

COPYRIGHT

New technologies and the generalization of Internet services represent an unprecedented challenge for the protection of intellectual property, it is necessary to take the appropriate steps both to protect your creations and to respect those of others:

• Records of works and creations.
• Licenses and other types of assignment contracts.
• Judicial and extrajudicial defence of intellectual property rights.

COMPETITION LAW

The right of competing in the market includes both the relationship with other competitors, and respect for the rules of protection of consumers and users. When running your business you should seek adequate advice and know what you can or cannot do it.

• Advice on conflicts with other competitors.
• Competition contracts.
• Products Labelling and packaging audits.
• Actions for unfair competition.
• General Contracting Conditions and terms.
• Claims for damages caused by illicit concurrent practices.
• Proceedings regarding consumers and users protection law.

NEW EUROPEAN DATA PROTECTION REGULATION

On May25th 2018, the new Law on Data Protection, namely the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), sets forth at European level the protection of the data of natural persons; not only companies but all types of organizations that, in the exercise of their commercial activities, handle personal data, are affected by the GDPR.

• Adaptation of your privacy policies to the GDPR.
• Data Protection Audits.
• Right to be forgotten.
• Data Protection Officer.
• Privacy offences, cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking  and other cyber-crimes.
• Proceedings before Data Protection Agencies and Courts.

LITIGATION

We are registered attorneys with extensive experience before the courts, not only we advise you in those areas of our competence, but, if necessary, we defend your position before a judge.

Representation and defence in legal proceedings before the civil, commercial, criminal and administrative jurisdiction:

• Actions for trademark, patent or any other type of intellectual property infringement.
• Actions for copyright infringement.
• Actions for unfair competition.
• Actions for damages caused by defective products.
• Nullity of distinctive signs and patents.
• Defence before the Courts of the European Union.
• Lawsuits for cyberbullying.

Representation and defence in proceedings before public administrations:

• Proceedings before Data Protection Authority.
• Procedures in terms of consumption and food quality.
• Proceeding before Trademark and Patent Offices.
• Registration of Designations of Origin and Geographical.
• Indications and other figures for the protection of agri-food quality.

Extrajudicial procedures:

• Retrieval of domain names.
• Arbitrations.