Trademarks and Trade names

Assistance with the registration of specific trademarks and/or trade names to protect our clients’ products and services, both in Spain and in any other country worldwide. Our professionals provide guidance on the most appropriate scope of protection and the registration process for our clients’ distinctive signs, including Spanish, EU and International trademarks and/or trade names.

We consider it essential to conduct searches for registration antecedents regarding the distinctive signs selected by our clients in order to determine whether their registration as trademarks or trade names prove viable. To this end, we can access national and international databases to identify existing registrations that might bear some relation to the one selected by the client.

Filing of the application for trademark and/ or trade name registration with the relevant official body responsible for processing such applications, both in Spain and abroad (national, international, and foreign country trademarks). Information and documents required for the filing of a trademark and/or trade name application:

• Full details of the applicant.
• Name/logotype (preferably in .jpg format).
• Goods/services.
• Territorial scope of the trademark (country/ies).
• Power of Attorney.

Ongoing monitoring services and information to our clients regarding new trademark and/or trade name applications filed and published in different national and international official gazettes, with the aim of preventing and defending against the total or partial reproduction of their distinctive signs by any third party acting in bad faith, as well as against any undue advantage taken of the well-known character they have acquired in the sector. Preparation and filing of arguments in defense of our clients’ rights against third parties before the relevant official bodies.

Control and monitoring of trademarks and/or trade names during their entire legal life with the object of notifying our clients well in advance of renewal deadlines in order to ensure the preservation of their rights on the same.

Taking the necessary steps for the recordal of changes in ownership of our clients’ trademarks and/or trade names, as well as of any encumbrances or liens, with the relevant national and international authorities.

Datos y documentos necesarios para gestionar un cambio de titularidad de marcas y/o nombres comerciales:

• Full details of the assigner and asignee.
• Registrations involved.
• Legal proceeding leading to the change in ownership.
• Power of Attorney.

Watch service through different Customs transit control measures at origin and destination to prevent the import, export and marketing of counterfeit goods.

The main objectives of this service are:

• To detect counterfeit products and goods.
• To prevent them form entering the commercial circuit.
• To bring administrative, civil and criminal actions against infringers.