Spain - Jurisdiction Review

Baker McKenzie

Firm overview

With extensive global reach and deep local expertise, we offer an unparalleled
blend of skills to help our clients navigate the complexities and seize the
opportunities of doing business in Singapore and across the Asia Pacific region. Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow, a joint law venture between Baker McKenzie and
Wong & Leow LLC, stands at the forefront of legal excellence.

We have the capabilities to offer comprehensive advice on both domestic
Singapore law and intricate cross-border issues, ensuring our clients receive
holistic and seamless legal support. As the preferred counsel for numerous
companies leveraging Singapore as a strategic hub for their regional operations,
our lawyers excel in managing multijurisdictional transactions and mitigating
cross-border risks with precision.

Our Singapore office is seamlessly integrated into a global network,
providing on-the-ground expertise across ASEAN countries and access to
Baker McKenzie’s expansive international network. This unique positioning
enables us to adeptly support the diverse domestic and international needs
of our clients, delivering tailored solutions that drive success in a dynamic
global market.

Oriol-IP

Firm overview

ORIOL-IP is a law firm specializing in Intellectual Property and New Technologies, founded by Juan Oriol. The firm offers comprehensive legal solutions for protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights such as trademarks, patents, and copyrights. It provides strategic legal counsel, litigation, contract drafting, and advisory services related to areas like data protection, trade secrets, and AI.

Vidal-Quadras & Ramon

Firm overview

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.

Balder

Firm overview

BALDER is one of Spain’s most leading edge IP law firms, founded in Madrid in 2012. The team’s mix of nationalities, cultures and backgrounds results in a different, modern, and adaptable approach to IP law. BALDER offers a complete range of legal services designed to help you succeed in a global competitive market.

The team combines patent and trademark attorneys and litigators and academically trained specialists with extensive and proven experience within the sector. BALDER’s professionals are perfectly positioned to advise clients at the UPC, EPO, EUIPO and other European and international courts.

BALDER is well known for thinking outside the box, using innovative strategies and determination to ensure that your legal needs are met. Furthermore, they are native speakers of different key languages, such as English, German, Spanish, French, Catalan, Mandarin, and Portuguese, ensuring nothing gets lost in translation. At BALDER, talent has no borders: the team is as diverse as the clients, operating across all industries, from start-ups to global corporations, providing an end-to-end personalized service.

BALDER provides expert IP services in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries with simplified administrative solutions through a uniform professional and technical approach. Simplicity, cost efficiency and first-class service; take advantage of their unique and innovative system, language skills along with experience acquired over many years in the Latin American region.

Throughout the 10+ years of business, they learned that consistency is essential which is why ISO Quality Standards were implemented from the beginning and ISO certification has been maintained ever since.

BALDER's aim has always been to be a state of the art IP law firm, a true pioneer in the field, continuously searching for improvements, to conduct business in an ethical, responsible, and outstanding manner. From trademarks to patents to specializing in IP legal matters in the new era of Web 3 tech, you are covered!

Using a flexible approach allows the firm to respond to each client’s unique needs, offering more than a made-to-measure service in a changing IP marketplace.

BALDER - Smart IP for Smart Businesses!

IP STARS Reviews

ABG Intellectual Property

ABG Intellectual Property is one of the most respected IP firms in the Spanish market. The firm changed its name in 2018 from ABG Patentes to ABG Intellectual Property to reflect its full-service IP practice, which now includes a legal department. Patent protection and portfolio management are still the firm's core business, with a range of clients in technical fields such as pharmaceuticals, chemistry, biotechnology, and engineering.

Notable patent practitioners: Juan Arias, Pablo Calvo, Agustín Alconada, Fernando Prieto and Enric Carbonell.

Notable trademark practitioners: Christine Weimann, Inés Cantero.

Co-founder and European patent attorney Juan Arias, who has a background in chemistry, leads the firm. Prieto and Calvo lead on engineering and physics-related instructions, while Alconada deals with biotechnology matters.

Abril Abogados

Abril Abogados is recommended for contentious and non-contentious soft IP work. The firm ended its relationship with Jacobacci & Partners in 2023.

Notable practitioners: Rubén Canales Quinto, Carlos Baños, Temiño Ceniceros and Salvador Diaz Prades.

Balder

Balder IP Law has grown rapidly in recent years. The firm is highly recommended for its IP protection services.

Notable patent practitioners: Elena Alonso and Pablo Blanch.

Notable practitioners: Olof Fickert, Óscar García, Patricia Koch and Magnus Stiebe.

Bardehle Pagenberg

Bardehle Pagenberg is a well-known German boutique recommended for IP disputes and protection work. The firm has an impressive team of lawyers, supported by patent attorneys, for patent disputes in different technical fields, including telecommunications and life sciences. Its lawyers are also recommended for trade mark and designs work.

Notable patent practitioners: Mathieu de Rooij.

Bird & Bird

Bird & Bird’s IP team is recommended for contentious and non-contentious IP work. For trade mark work the senior practitioners are supported by IP associates.

Notable patent practitioners: Manuel Lobato.

Notable practitioners: José Miguel Lissén, Mariano Santos, Antonio Cueto and María Fernández.

BomhardIP

BomhardIP is a boutique firm which has quickly established itself in the Spanish market as one of the best firms to handle national and EU trade mark work. Its team specialises in trade mark protection and portfolio management.

Notable practitioners: Verena von Bomhard, Giles Corbally, Johannes Fuhrmann and Inmaculada González López.

Founding partner Verena von Bomhard leads the practice with fellow partner Giles Corbally.

ClarkeModet

ClarkeModet Spain is recommended for IP protection and management work. Protection service lines are reputed in the metaverse and biotechnology industries.

Notable practitioners: Ignacio Gomez-Acebo, Clara Pombo and Miguel Rigueiro.

Elzaburu

Elzaburu remains a leading name for IP work in Spain. The firm is recommended for disputes and protection work. It has IP practitioners and technical specialists working together effectively to solve IP issues for its clients. The trade mark protection department is headed by Luis Baz.

Notable lawyers: Carlos Morán and Enrique Armijo Chávarri.

Notable soft practitioners: Mabel Klimt, Fernando Ilardia.

Foncillas IP Lawyers

Foncillas IP Lawyers is a vibrant law firm with both contentious and prosecution capacity on the Spanish market. The soft function is active before the EUIPO, SPTO, and WIPO for corporate and local clients. A strategic alliance with Atlan Boksenbaum Avocats in France and Kroher Strobel affords the firm a collaborative European network.

Notable practitioners: Lara Foncillas and Ramon Foncillas.

Grau & Angulo

IP boutique Grau & Angulo is highly recommended for IP disputes. In patents, the firm is often seen acting for companies in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors.

Notable patent practitioners: Jesús Arribas and Javier Huarte.

Notable soft practitioners: Agustí Valls, Jordi Camó, Ignacio Marqués and Sonia Santos.

Hoyng Rokh Monegier

European IP boutique Hoyng Rokh Monegier also has a strong IP practice in Spain, with experienced practitioners for IP disputes and trade mark protection work. The Spanish team is involved in the firm's cross-border disputes.

Notable patent practitioners: Luis Fernández-Novoa and Álvaro Velázquez.

Notable soft practitioners: José Antonio Sanmartìn and Laura Alonso.

IP litigator Luis Fernández-Novoa oversees the firm's Madrid office and Alonso leads the trade mark protection practice.

Isern Patentes y Marcas

Isern Patentes y Marcas is an established IP agency in Spain which is recommended for IP protection and portfolio management work. The firm has a busy European trade mark filing practice. The IP team consists of lawyers, engineers, and industrial property agents.

Notable practitioners: Javier Isern, Jorge Isern, Pepe Isern, Nuria Isern and Marta Isern.

Jacobacci & Partners

Jacobacci & Partners is a reputed international IP protection agency. Brand management services include everything from registration to international anti-counterfeiting. The firm represents clients in patent filing on national, European, and international mandates with complementary patent litigation capacity.

KUKATI

KUKATI is an IP practice with a thematic focus on strategic advice, post-grant patent-related business transactions and litigation services. The firm is known for its patent service suite in the fields of electronics, telecommunications and software.

Notable patent practitioners: Darío Mohammadian Santander.

TRBL Intellectual Property

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.

Vidal-Quadras & Ramon

Vidal-Quadras & Ramon is recommended for patent contentious work and has dynamic expertise in the life sciences sector. In recent years, the firm has been working conscientiously to build its soft prosecution capacity.

Notable patent practitioners: Miguel Vidal-Quadras, Oriol Ramon Sauri.

Notable trademark practitioners: Carmenchu Buganza, Marta Centell Ribas, Sonia Sarroca Suñer and Cloe Adelantado Callard.

ZBM Patents & Trademarks

ZBM Patents & Trademarks is a well-established Spanish IP firm which is highly recommended for patent filing and prosecution work. The firm has experienced patent practitioners to protect inventions in technical fields such as life sciences, chemistry, electronics, and mechanics.

Notable patent practitioners: Montserrat Jané, Bernabé Zea, Carles Comes and Anna Barlocci.