Durán-Corretjer SLP

We are glad to announce that our European Patent Attorney Mr. Oscar Boué has obtained a Diploma on Patent Litigation in Europe from the Milan University (Italy).

Furthermore, our lawyer Ms. Helena Obis has passed the examination to qualify as Industrial Property Attorney.

We congratulate both of them by these achievements that go along the firm’s policy to promote the education and professional qualification of the members of our team with the objective to provide our clients with advise of the highest quality.

Right now, our firm has:

7 Industrial Property Attorneys
4 European Patent Attorneys
3 Attorneys with a Diploma on Patent Litigation in Europe

WHO’S WHO LEGAL prestigious magazine has included Managing Partner Luis-Alfonso Durán as one of the world’s leading practitioner in Patent and Trademark matters.

The nomination takes into account the opinions of law firms and intellectual property experts from around the world which then select the nominees for their outstanding set of skills to handle complex patent and trademark infringement litigation and prosecutions as well as strategic portfolio development on a global scale.

We congratulate our Managing Partner on receiving these prestigious recommendations.

Spanish and European Trade Mark Attorneys Mr. Luis-Alfonso Durán and Ms. Ada Torras provided in the ECTA BULLETIN some basic guidelines to be considered during the opposition trade mark proceedings in Spain following Spain’s implementation of the EU Trade Mark Directive 2015/2436.

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As of December 30, 2019, companies and designers from Vietnam can begin using the Hague System to protect their industrial designs in respect of all the countries part of the Hague System through a single international application.

Also, foreign companies and designers can seek design protection through the Hague System.

As of January 3, 2020, companies and designers from Israel can begin using the Hague System to protect their industrial designs in respect of all the 88 countries part of the Hague System through a single international application and set of fees.

Also, foreign companies and designers can seek design protection through the Hague System in Israel from January 3, 2020.

On September 25, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) published a joint study on intellectual property rights showing that those sectors that make intensive use of intellectual property rights generate 45 % of the economic activity of the European Union, giving employment to one in three people in the EU and generating salaries 47 % higher than in other sectors.

This study demonstrates once again that intellectual property assets (trade marks, patents and designs) are of paramount importance for companies and their workers and that their correct protection facilitates and promotes the economic development of all of them.

On 27 September 2019, Malaysia deposited with WIPO its instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol, becoming the 106th member of the Madrid System.
 
The Protocol will take effect for the country on 27 December 2019. From that date, it will be possible for foreign trademark owners to designate Malaysia through the international registration system to protect their trademarks.

Last September 9, 2019, five of the Contracting States of the Eurasian Patent Convention (EAPC) signed the Protocol on the Protection of Industrial Designs: Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia.

This Protocol extends its protection in the field of the industrial designs in order to make the Eurasian patent system more attractive and beneficial for EAPC Contracting States.

Once the Protocol is in force, a Eurasian patent for an industrial design can be obtained to be effective in the territory of the Contracting States of the EAPC that ratified or joined the Protocol.

Between September 15 and 18, the annual meeting of the AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property) was held in London, attended by Luis-Alfonso Durán and Christian Durán on behalf of Durán-Corretjer.

The conference discussed various current issues in the world of industrial property, such as industrial secrets, the defense of industrial property rights and customs or the future of artificial intelligence.

In this edition and with regard to trademarks, issues related to the various possible defense strategies in cases of trademark infringement were discussed.

Our firm once more is ranked as a leading firm in the field of Trade Mark and Patent prosecution in Spain, according to the British magazine Managing Intellectual Property (MIP), which is the result of an international survey that establishes a ranking of the firms on Industrial and Intellectual Property around the world.