Abril Informa

January 12, 2023

New administrative procedures for revocation and invalidity of trademarks in Spain for 2023.

Spain was one of the last countries to transpose European Directive 2015/2436 of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trademarks. The delay in transposition and the risk of receiving a fine forced an accelerated legislative process, through an emergency procedure that culminated in Royal Decree-Law 23/2018, which not

January 11, 2023

Measures to safeguard at Mobile World Congress extend to the metaverse and other virtual spaces

MOBILE WORD CONGRESS will take place again in Barcelona from 27 February to 2 March 2023. The Judges of Commercial Courts of Barcelona and Alicante (with Intellectual Property jurisdiction, among others) have activated for another year the GUARD SERVICE AND SPEEDY JUDICIAL ACTION PROTOCOL for the processing of requests for preliminary proceedings, fact-finding proceedings, requests

November 16, 2022

Which court has jurisdiction to hear a dispute between two nationals of the same EU Member State to decide on the ownership of a patent filed in a non-EU country?

On September 8, 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a ruling (here) in a dispute in which two Swedish companies are vying for ownership of both European patents and patents filed in non-EU Member States (specifically China and the United States), which derived from the designation of the inventor. In this

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December 14, 2021

Happy Holidays – Felices Fiestas

December 14, 2020

Felices Fiestas – Happy Holidays 2020

September 21, 2020

Juice vs Nectar

After the Barcelona’s Provincial Court sentenced Granini to cease broadcasting an advertising spot of his orange nectar, it is now the Supreme Court which has ruled on that advertising. The action brought by J. García Carrion, owner of Don Simon trademark, against Granini arises from the broadcasting of an advertising spot in which Granini advertised

December 22, 2017

Happy Holidays – Season´s Greetings

Flash News January 12, 2023New administrative procedures for revocation and invalidity of trademarks in Spain for 2023.Spain was one of the last countries to transpose European Directive 2015/2436 of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trademarks. The delay in transposition and the risk of receiving a fine forced

March 15, 2017

II Technical Seminars SICARM ICAMUR

On February 16, the II SICARM ICAMUR Technical Conference was held at the Illustrious Bar Association of Murcia. Jorge Oria participated as a speaker talking about “Domain names, metatags and keywords: infringement of distinctive signs and legal actions for their recovery”.

December 20, 2016

Feliz Navidad – Season´s Greetings 2016

Abril Informa January 12, 2023New administrative procedures for revocation and invalidity of trademarks in Spain for 2023.Spain was one of the last countries to transpose European Directive 2015/2436 of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trademarks. The delay in transposition and the risk of receiving a fine forced

June 10, 2016

Abril Abogados in Youtube, jotajotavm

July 5, 2014

CEDRO, new modalities of exploitation of text works

On this occasion we have the collaboration of Javier Diaz de Olarte, Head of the Legal Department of CEDRO. Javier tells us in this video about the current situation of the new modalities of exploitation of text works, the effects of the next Intellectual Property Law and CEDRO’s recommendations to try to tackle this serious

June 16, 2014

Abril Abogados with entrepreneurs

May 18, 2014