Ecija has advised the Latin Grammy Awards at the first Latin Recording Academy Awards Gala held in Spain. Seville was the venue for the celebration of Latin music, with performances by artists such as Rosalía, Alejandro Sanz, Anitta and Jorge Drexler, among others. The firm has advised on all matters relating to audiovisual production (service […]
The winners of the Iberian Lawyer IP&TMT Awards 2023 were announced during the gala ceremony held at the Riu Plaza Espana Hotel in Madrid, on the 13rd of July 2023. Once again, the IP&
PONS IP has announced the completion of a three year transformation process, by which it will abandon the law firm label and become a global industrial and intellectual property consultancy. “We want to overcome the
The first Industrial Property Code of Sao Tome and Principe (IPC-STP) has been published in the Diário da República.
The Boletín Oficial del Estado (Official State Gazette) – published on 25 July, 2015 – contains the new Patent Law (Law 24/2015), which introduced significant changes to the Spanish patent protection system. Of these changes, we feel the need
The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) recently submitted a first draft for a new Patent Act, which would replace the current one of 1986. As from 1986, several amendments have been implemented, however the new text
Important changes to Spanish intellectual property (IP) regulations have developed since the beginning of 2012. These include the removal of the levy that compensated rights holders for the making of private copies of their works, and
The recent Bonnier case before the European Court of Justice is another attempt to find a solution to the seemingly endless conflict between copyright holders and internet service providers (ISPs).In this case, an unknown
Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé e Príncipe share a wide range of cultural roots, among which are very specific aspects of the daily life and, most of all, the same
In this modern world of global economics and commerce, piracy and counterfeiting are increasingly at the top of both the economic players’ and lawmakers’ concerns as their impact on business, industry, consumers and the economy