Elion is an IP firm founded in 2022 by women as acknowledged by Managing IP. The firm is known for its compact yet exceptional team with four fully qualified European Patent Attorneys, one of them also qualified before the Unified Patent Court.
All of Elion’s patent attorneys have significant in-house experience at innovative and industry-leading companies, setting Elion apart and bringing a depth of real-world insight. This hands-on in-house background enables providing pragmatic, business-oriented IP advice aligned with client goals, whether for startups, SMEs, R&D institutions, or multinationals.
The combination of industry experience and perspective as private practice practitioners makes Elion’s team the perfect partner for establishing the IP strategies of a company as well as for identifying, defining and defending their valuable IP assets.
Elion’s team is seasoned in a wide range of technologies, with European Patent Attorneys highly experienced in software/computer-implemented inventions, including inventions related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), complemented by professionals in chemistry and life sciences with expertise in biotechnology, that often team up to tackle technologies at the interface of various disciplines.
Elion’s professionals are also recognized for their strong presence in litigation. They are frequently appointed as court experts in high-stakes patent disputes and have a proven track record in supporting complex proceedings across technical sectors. Their courtroom and technical credibility make them trusted partners in contentious and non-contentious matters alike.
The firm provides a wide range of IP services, including full-service patent support, from drafting, prosecution and validation of European patents in Spain, to strategic IP portfolio development and freedom-to-operate assessments. Elion crafts tailored solutions with clarity and precision, ensuring that IP strategies are both legally sound and commercially effective.
Elion is a reliable choice for clients navigating the increasingly complex IP landscape, both in Europe and abroad.
ZBM Patents & Trademarks was founded in 2003 with the goal of changing the patent landscape in Spain and is now playing in the league of high-ranked European patent law firms, serving multinational clients from Europe, the USA and other regions. ZBM is proud to have decisively contributed to set the new standard for quality patent practice in Spain.
The firm has grown considerably from its creation and has an outstanding team of patent experts with scientific backgrounds over the whole range of technical fields from life sciences to chemistry, electronics, software and mechanics. They acquire an in-depth understanding of clients’ technologies and endeavour to provide tailored advice to clients, taking account of their individual business needs.
Most of ZBM’s experts are qualified European patent attorneys (EPAs), many of them are also qualified as European Patent Litigators at the Unified Patent Court (UPC Litigators). Our team also includes a number of lawyers who are experts in trademarks and technology transfer. We also have Spanish patent and trademark attorneys and authorized representatives before EUIPO. Besides our exceptional prosecution department counts on the largest number of professionals in Spain with the European patent administration certification (EPAC) of the European Patent Office.
The commitment to quality at ZBM is relentless: its attorneys believe that something is not worth doing if it is not done well. Whether the job is patent drafting, prosecution work, opposition, trademark negotiations or just validations, all work products are cross-checked to ensure that they are of consistent high quality.
Indeed, the firm's outstanding quality has been acknowledged both nationally and internationally from the beginning and ZBM is the only Spanish firm that has been listedin the top tier for patent prosecution by Managing Intellectual Property every year since 2007. ZBM has also been nominated several times by the same entity as the Firm of the Year in patent prosecution Spain.
Clients also recognise ZBM’s excellent value for money, and client recommendations have become its major source of growth as small and medium-sized enterprises, multinationals, research institutions, patent firms and lawyers increasingly find their way to ZBM from the United States, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.
The services offered by the firm in the patents field include patentability and freedom-to-operate analysis, carried out by attorneys who are highly trained in searching as former Chemical Abstracts and STN trainers and managers of scientific information of some of ZBM's experts; drafting of patent applications adapted to the main jurisdictions including Europe, the USA and Japan; patent prosecution worldwide and in particular at the European Patent Office, for both domestic and international clients, with the firm's attorneys always aiming to provide sound strategic advice in each step of prosecution; oppositions and appeals at the European Patent Office, in which our attorneys have been achieving remarkable results even in complex cases; patent litigation in Spain, where several of ZBM’s professionals regularly act as technical experts and have been involved in the Spanish leg of several pan-European litigation cases.
ZBM's trademark work is continuously growing in volume. ZBM's lawyers offer effective legal and strategic advice in relation with all aspects of trademark law and practice, including for example prosecution, oppositions and negotiations, with a particular focus in the European Union, Spain and Latin America.
ZBM also provides services in other IP fields such as designs, trade secrets, copyright, unfair competition or domain names.
Finally, the BConnect unit of ZBM that was created a few years ago is working very well. This unit provides services in technology transfer (patent commercialisation), licensees search, support in ongoing licensing negotiations, contract draft (consortium agreements, confidentiality, material transfer agreement (MTA), licensing), support and collaboration in R&D projects.
At VIDAL-QUADRAS & RAMON we offer our clients customised solutions depending on their needs related to industrial and intellectual property, anti-trust law, information society and life sciences, based on understanding their sector and the real market situation.
The firm was founded due to our concern to provide exclusive and specialised services in these fields, ranging from pre-contentious, contentious and contractual advice to assisting our clients in designing their market strategy.
In the context of today’s globalised markets, we have seen that the cases we deal with have become increasingly complex over the last few decades, in particular, regarding patents and know-how; therefore the problem must be understood from a broad perspective that takes into account all the legal, economic and technical aspects.
We are aware that our clients require advice based on in-depth expertise not only at a legal level but also related to the market in which they operate, their industrial sector and the practice of the courts.
All this has led us time and time again to reach the realisation that a high level of skills and specialisation is required both at the individual level of each of the lawyers taking part in the consulting service and at a team level in order to cover these needs. We use all our intellectual and material resources to cover our clients’ specific needs with the thoroughness, depth and experience each case requires.
ABRIL was founded in 2001 as IP Law firm and was one of the first in the Spanish market offering a full and combined service covering both litigation and prosecution in all areas of Intellectual Property.
The services offered cover all IP & TMT areas with extraordinary quality, in particular in Trademark prosecution and enforcement, Copyright advising/enforcement and Patent prosecution and litigation. Our professionals work from five offices in Spain (Madrid, Valencia, Murcia, Barcelona and Vigo).
TRBL Intellectual Property is the IP services arm of TRBL Services. The firm was formerly known as Tribalyte Ideas. It is recommended for patent filing and protection work. The firm’s patent practitioners can handle patent work in technical fields such as mechanics, electronics, and telecommunications.
Notable patent practitioners: Gustavo de Dios and Guillermo Menéndez.