Grau & Angulo

Grau & Angulo was founded to create a boutique law firm specialising exclusively in defending its clients’ intellectual property rights and providing clear solutions as quickly and efficiently as possible. Within this specialised area, the firm provides litigation and advice on patents, trademarks, design, copyright, domain names, licensing/technological transfer, unfair competition and anti-counterfeiting matters. 

Insight into this field combined with the highest technical and legal expertise and a high degree of specialisation are the key to the firm’s success.

This specialisation provides crucial resources enabling the firm to handle complex IP issues. Currently the largest IP litigation team in the country, Grau & Angulo deals with many of Spain’s most ground-breaking court cases and it has a strong reputation for dealing with EU cross-border cases.

The firm offers legal representation in all areas of intellectual property law to primarily international clients in industries such as entertainment, textile, fashion, mass consumer goods, healthcare, high technology, pharmaceutical, sport and leisure, food and beverage, perfumery, IT/telecoms and luxury goods, for whom intellectual property is an important asset of their business.

Practice Areas: Copyright, Designs, IP transactions, Life sciences, Patent contentious, Patent litigation, Patent strategy & counseling, Trade mark contentious, Trade mark litigation, Trade mark strategy & counseling

Sector Expertise: Automotive, Computer technology & services, Construction & materials, Electronics, Electrical, Fashion & luxury goods, Film, Food & beverage, Furniture, Healthcare, Hospitality & leisure, Life sciences, Mechanical, Pharmaceutical, Renewable energy, Sports, Tobacco, Retail, Telecommunication, Medical device

Trademark Litigation

• Leading strategic trademark enforcement of major perfume brands and massive EU-wide court action against smell-alike perfumes.
• Continued trademark enforcement of major brand’s three stripe trademark. Continued trademark enforcement of multinational mass media and entertainment corporation.
• Defence of a leading telecommunications company in trademark infringement and parallel import case.

Design Litigation

• Significant judgement in EU Design infringement representing a major luxury brand in dispute concerning its iconic handbag design.
• Diverse litigation work concerning iconic bottle designs. 
• Representing a global automobile company in the interpretation of the spare parts clause in Community Designs.

Mechanical & Electronic Patent Litigation

• Defending a major brand’s coffee capsule patent.
• Defending a healthcare client’s patent for a hospital’s drug-dispenser machine.
• Defending a company’s electronic patents related to live streaming of audio and/or video information over diverse communications networks.

Pharmaceutical Patent Litigation

• Pharmaceutical patent litigation concerning biosimilars and generics of blockbuster drugs. 
• The firm also advises in patent matters relating to biologic innovative products

Copyright Litigation & Advice

• Copyright advice and litigation work for rightholders in sectors such as media and entertainment, luxury brands, telecommunication
• Advising a major European women’s healthcare centre on a software licence agreement. 

Anti-Counterfeiting

• The firm’s well established anti-counterfeiting team provides continuous enforcement and border controls. Its effectiveness in border controls is due to its longstanding relationships with customs authorities and police bodies which provide time and cost-effective solutions for clients. This same team also provides highly skilled criminal litigation services with a practical, tailor-made approach, depending on the client’s needs, goals and budget.
• Other strong team assets are data collection and intelligence analysis which have proved useful for clients in developing both national and international brand protection strategies and in cross-border work.
• The team defends leading brands in the areas of entertainment, sport and leisure, fashion, luxury goods and accessories, footwear, mass consumer products and perfumes.
• The team leads some of the most relevant and challenging anti-counterfeiting cases in the Spanish criminal jurisdiction.