PONS IP creates a unit specialised in technological innovation consulting

PONS IP has announced the creation of a new department called “Technological Innovation Consultancy” made up of professionals from the fields of digital law, economics, science and intellectual property to expand its portfolio of IP-relates services through this newly created pioneering area in Spain.

Image: from left to right: Amaya Mallea, Isabel Marco, Eric Maciá and Violeta Arnaiz. Seated: Luis Ignacio Vicente del Olmo, Nuria Marcos (CEO of Pons IP) and José Carlos Erdozain.

Technological Innovation Consultancy

With this decision, PONS IP aims to provide a global response and add value throughout the innovation cycle to the growing demand from clients on key issues such as participation in R&D projects funded by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe and Digital Europe programmes, comprehensive advice on intellectual property activities to medium-sized companies that do not have their own legal team, as well as comprehensive advice aimed at venture capital firms and business angels, among other players in the innovation ecosystem.

Professionals

The new Technological Innovation Consultancy team has been proposed by the General Manager of PONS IP, Nuria Marcos and will be led, in this first stage, directly by the strategic advisor of PONS IP Luis Ignacio Vicente, with almost 35 years of experience managing R&D&I for Telefónica and other companies, together with Eric Maciá, Senior Legal Counsel with more than ten years of experience as a legal professional with a background in engineering, specialising in intellectual property, information security, negotiation, ICT contracting, technology and alternative dispute resolution. The coordination of the work group will also include other professionals such as Isabel Marco, PhD in Chemistry and with nearly 20 years of experience in the field of patents and innovation, who will lead the Technology Surveillance area.

Amaya Mallea will be the director of Legal Consultancy in R&D&I. She is a lawyer with 23 years of experience collaborating with companies, universities, technology centres and other public research entities in their technology transfer processes and legal protection of R&D&I during their innovation generation cycles.

Violeta Arnaiz, a lawyer specialising in intellectual property, will be in charge of the technological intellectual property area to help PONS IP clients address the challenges that are already being created by new digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.

Data management advisory team

This new organisation will also have a data management advisory team with the vision of going beyond the usual approach by addressing issues such as synthetic data or industrial non-personal data. This team will be led directly by José Carlos Erdazoain, Of counsel at PONS IP.

For Luis Ignacio Vicente, “The data are clear: in Spain today we have 23% fewer small companies performing R&D than in 2010. If we look at Europe, 10% of startups have filed patents in their early stages and 44% by the time they reach large funding rounds. We need to help European companies to capitalise on knowledge through proper management of their intellectual property rights”.