TradeMarks and TradeNames

Our Firm specializes in offering services and advice in the fields of industrial property, intellectual property, licensing, technology transfer, unfair competition, domain names, and general litigation relating to intellectual and industrial property rights in all competent courts at all levels and in all jurisdictions, including international courts of arbitration.

Our Firm’s Alicante branch office specializes in Community trademark and design matters and can offer legal services in all five official languages of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), the OHIM, i.e., Spanish, English, German, French, and Italian. Our partners and associates speak at least three of these official languages, and we have our own in-house foreign lawyers who also speak Spanish.

Our partners and associates include a team of lawyers who handle actions in and out of court in defence of our clients’ interests along with contentious-administrative appeals to Spain’s High Courts of Justice and Supreme Court.

01.
PATENTS

Preparation of patent, utility model, and design applications. Our Firm’s team of Patent Attorneys qualified in the various scientific and engineering fields provides all services relating to the filing of Spanish national patent and utility model applications, Community and Spanish design applications, and international (PCT) and European patent applications as well as the corresponding country designations.

02.
SEARCHES

Our Firm has the means and specialized personnel on hand that enable it to conduct all types of searches relating to patents, utility models, industrial models and designs, and Community and Spanish designs (particularly subject matter and owner searches).

03.
Technical opinions

Our Firm’s Patent Attorneys draw up technical opinions addressing patentability and infringement issue

04.
TRADEMARKS

On request our Firm offers watching services to monitor filings of new patents, utility models, and/or industrial designs which could potentially conflict with the industrial property rights being watched. The relevant watch notices are sent out for purposes of information and, where appropriate, opposition. Special-purpose watching services are also available upon request.

05.
Technical translations

Our Firm has a large team of qualified translators specializing in the different technical fields for the various language pairs to prepare the initial versions of translations. The versions prepared by this team are then vetted and revised by our Firm’s Patent Attorneys, who are responsible for the final versions, ensuring that our translations are of the highest quality.

06.
National phase of European patents

Our Firm handles validations in Spain both of European patent applications for provisional protection under Article 67(3) of the European Patent Convention (EPC) and of granted European patents to obtain the corresponding Spanish part under Article 65(1) EPC and in fact takes charge of a large share of all validation work performed. The requisite translations of the original specifications are produced as just described in the preceding section dealing with technical translations.

  • Trademark watches, surveillance, and clearance

    Our firm provide an advice for the best protection of your intellectual property interest in the whole word in a simply and comprehensive way. 

    Before the trademark application is done, we through an accurate landscape research, we can make sure that your trademark does not infringe other registered trademarks in any part of the world and that it meets all the requirements in OEPM, EUIPO , IPO and many other offices.

  • Spanish device mark watches and searches
  • Filing and maintenance of national, Community, and international marks

    Protect your trademark and brands rights by requesting our advice in

    Trademark international search

    Trademark registration in Spain, Euipo, Uk, China, India….

    Trademark renewals in Spain, Euipo, Uk, China, India….

    And any other recordal of trademarks like changes ownership, change name, change address, or trademark infringement and licence agreement.

  • International trademark portfolio management

    Strategy and decisions

    1.- the most important will be to choose the sign you will register

    2.- to select the products and services that will be marked

    3.- decide which markets are priority and interest to protect.

    4.- checking availability of the brand

    5.- strategy of use and register

    6.- be activity and strong in border defence

    7.- be informed of other registers in the whole world

  • Opposition and appeal proceedings at the SPTO and OHIM and before all Spanish courts

    We are responsible for defending your rights and interests against any act of violation, whether of industrial or intellectual property or through unfair competition before the administrative authorities or European or/and Spanish Court.

    As experts in intellectual property and unfair competition, we also prepare experts reports in advance or studying the situation and circumstances of the facts and possible infringements, proposing how to face a future lawsuit, attack or defence, before the boarder authorities or judicial courts.

  • Due diligence and other intellectual and industrial property audits
Civil and Criminal Proceedings
Copyright, Counterfeiting and Piracy, Mediation and Arbitration
Mediation
Copyright, Counterfeiting and Piracy, Mediation and Arbitration
Arbitration
Copyright, Counterfeiting and Piracy, Mediation and Arbitration
Our contacts
Phone

+34 617 27 40 31

Email

maezcurra@patentesezcurra.com

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