“highly regarded for his IP litigation skills.”
Legal 500 2024
“Vast experience in criminal enforcement work against counterfeiters”
World Trademark Review 1000, 2024
Training
Graduate in Law from the ESADE Faculty of Law, Ramon Llull University in Barcelona and member of the Barcelona Bar since 2000.
He took postgraduate courses specialising in various areas of Industrial and Intellectual Property. In 1999 he was awarded an Erasmus Grant at Copenhagen University.
Professional Experience
From 2000 to 2004 he was at Bufete Ventura Garcés Abogados, working in the field of mercantile law, specialising in Industrial and Intellectual Property. During 2001 he worked occasionally with the American firm Gould & Ratner.
In 2004 he joined Grau & Angulo and has been a partner since 2013.
Areas of Activity
Anti-piracy and criminal law in trade marks.
Publications and Lectures
- Calculation of damages in criminal IP cases (Spain)
EUROJUST. June 6th 2024. - Spanish IP crime prosecutions
The European Observatory on Infringements of IP rights. EUIPO. Regional EIPPN Meeting in Brussels. May 22nd and 23rd 2024. - HIDDEN LINKS
An Insight from Spain. The ACG. July 13th 2023. - HIDDEN LINKS: a new method of selling counterfeit goods online (case study from Spain)
US DOJ/EUROJUST monthly American/European lecture. November 28th 2023. - Storage costs generated by deposit of counterfeit goods
International Law Office (February 2018) - Progressive abandonment of consumer error theory in criminal jurisprudence
International Law Office (February 2017) - Des pays, des PI: tour d’horizon des bonnes pratiques (Espagne).
UNIFAB, Paris (December 2016) - Criminal conviction in trademark imitation case
International Law Office (November 2015) - Amendments to Criminal Code come into force
Word Trademark Review (July 2015) - Spanish Appeal Court decision drops long-held Consumer Error Theory
BNA International (March 2015) - Is Tarragona Court of Appeal abandoning consumer error theory?
International Law Office (January 2015) - Draft bill to amend Criminal Code: impact on IP crimes
International Law Office (September 2013) - Infringement of IP right automatically means that rights holder has suffered damages
WTR Daily (April 2013) - Appeal court interprets prescription after Criminal Code reform
International Law Office (January 2013) - Conviction for imitation of well-known trade mark: cover registration provides no cover
Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, Oxford Journals (October 2012) - Beware cover registrations imitating well-known trademarks
International Law Office (June 2012) - Courts debate who should bear destruction and storage costs
International Law Office (May 2011) - Court of Appeal denies use of trademark to protect importing of Armani imitations
World Intellectual Property Report, BNA International (April 2012) - Amendments to the Spanish Criminal Code
BNA International (September 2010) - Impact of Criminal Code amendments on IP rights
International Law Office (August 2010) - Amendments to the Spanish Criminal Code
MARQUES Newsletter (August 2010) - Changes to the criminal prosecution of parallel imports
International Law Office (July 2010) - Conviction for Marketing Fake Products Online
International Law Office (November 2009) - Big Secret. What is ACTA?
World Trademark Review (Sep/Oct 2008) - EU Proposals For Harmonization Of Criminal Measures To Combat Counterfeiting And Piracy
Mondaq (Feb 2006) - Amendments to the Criminal Code and their effect on Industrial and Intellectual Property
TOGAS, La Vanguardia (Feb 2005)
Languages
Spanish, English and Catalan.
Professional Associations
Member of the Barcelona Bar Association.
Acknowledgements
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Spain™ 2024
World Trademark Review 1000 2024 – Silver Tier Recommended Individual
