Durán-Corretjer SLP

Mr. Christian Durán, Attorney at Law and Spanish Patent and Trade Mark Attorney from Durán-Corretjer, S.L.P. was invited, as panelist, to the XX Work Sessions and Administrative Council of ASIPI (Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property), which took place in Panama City between November 26th and 29th 2017.

The topic of the presentation was “From Subtlety to Imprudence: Imitating the Market Leaders (Trade Dress)” and Mr. Christian Durán focused his presentation in the Trade Dress protection from the European Union perspective.

ASIPI is the most important Intellectual Property association in America, and it brings together patent and trade mark professionals from those countries. Mr. Christian Durán is ASIPI’s representative before EUIPO.

Last November 29th, the European Commission adopted a package of measures addressed to reinforce the fight against infringement of Intellectual Property rights, that include:

1. Stepping up the fight against counterfeiting and piracy focussing on big infringers.
2. Ensure an equally high level of legal protection and predictable judicial framework across the European Union, creating a new guidance to interpret the Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights.
3. Reduce the volume of counterfeited products reaching the European Union market. To that end, the European Commission proposes to reinforce cooperation programmes with third countries (China, South-East Asia, Latin America) and create a watch-list of markets that are reported to engage in, or facilitate, substantial IPR infringement.
4. Creating a fair and balanced system for Standard Essential Patents.

Indonesia joins the Madrid Protocol. This accession to the Madrid Protocol  brings the number of Contracting Parties of the Madrid Protocol to 100.

On October 1, 2017 new changes on the European trade mark Regulation will enter into force.

Those changes relate to new types of trade marks (position, pattern, sound, motion, multimedia and holograms), new kind of trade marks (certification trade marks) and the possibility to claim subsidiary acquired distinctiveness.

If you are interested in receiving a more detailed information about those changes, you can contact us sending an email at info@duran.es.

The magazine of the European Union Trade Mark Office (EUIPO) “Alicante News” has published an interview with our Managing Partner Luis-Alfonso Duran, where he expresses his views about the development of the trade mark system in Europe and its futur.

You can access to the interview at the following link.

Alicante-news

Our firm has participated in the edition on "The Digital Revolution" recently published by of the famous spanish magazine of the Institute of Economic Studies, with a chapter on the protection through Intellectual Property of products and services in the digital market.

Durán-Corretjer participated in the Seminar organized by the most important Spanish industry organization (CEOE) concerning the new Spanish Patent Act and Brexit, with a presentation concerning the consequences of Brexit in the IP protection systems in Europe, that took place in Madrid on November 23, 2016.

Durán-Corretjer Managing Partner, Luis-Alfonso Durán, was invited to talk about the consequences of Brexit in European IP protection at the 66th Council Meeting of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA) that took place in Bali from October 8th to 11th, 2016.

We are proud to announce that Mr. Christian Durán, Attorney at Law and Patent and Trade Mark Attorney in our firm, has been elected as new Secretary-Treasurer of the Spanish Group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), the most important and influent international association in the area of Intellectual Property that has more than 9.000 members worldwide.

Our Managing Partner, Mr. Luis-Alfonso Durán, has successfully completed the course on Patent Litigation in Europe, organised by the International Center for Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) of the Strasbourg University.

This course is one of the main ones proposed to be recognised by the Unified Patent Court to entitle European patent attorneys to represent before that Court on litigations concerning European patents and European patents with unitary effect.