Ana Donate and Carlos Morán new partners of Elzaburu

Elzaburu has appointed Ana Donate and Carlos Morán as new partners of Elzaburu, a firm in which both were already associate partners.

Ana Donate has a law degree from the University of Madrid and joined the firm in 1998 after several years in an international law firm. She is an industrial property attorney, european trademark attorney since 1999, member of AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property) and authorised representative before the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office).

Ana is an expert in the direction and management of large portfolios of industrial property rights, as well as in the definition of international protection strategies. She specialises in proceedings before the SPTO (Spanish Patent and Trademark Office), EUIPO , WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and in foreign jurisdictions, with special emphasis on the defence of well-known trademarks.

Carlos Morán holds a law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid and has been a practising lawyer since 1996. He joined the firm in 2001 after five years’ experience in a prestigious law firm specialising in intellectual property.

He is a member of Elzaburu’s litigation group, is a member of the AEDC (Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition) and AIPPI, among other associations, and has been an associate professor of Industrial and competition law at the Carlos III University of Madrid and at ICADE (Centro de Innovación del Derecho de la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas). His area of specialisation is trademark, patent, industrial design, designations of origin, unfair competition and advertising litigation.