Spain

Firm overview

ClarkeModet, established in 1879, is the biggest international Intellectual Property group in Latin America and an entry point to Europe. With an operational presence in 17 countries, it manages one in every ten patent applications in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking markets.

Their trajectory spans a century and a half of life-supporting history’s great inventors. With over 140 years of supporting innovators worldwide.  ClarkeModet offers full-service IP legal, technical and consultancy experience across all industry sectors. And are pioneers in creating and implementing new IP services, mostly supported by technology and IP business consultancy experts. They maintain this innovative vision to keep up with global trends.

ClarkeModet manages the most important Intellectual Property portfolios among the main innovation-generating industries worldwide, being a valued partner to maximize their innovation.

 Global network

ClarkeModet operates in over 195 countries thanks to its networks of agents.

They are pioneer in international expansion and has a presence in 17 countries, operating with a global team with a local soul.

• In Latin America, with its own companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
• In Europe, Spain, Portugal, and we own an EPO office in Munich (Germany), which has assigned a network of 7 European patent agents (EQEs - European Qualifying Examination) acting for ClarkeModet.
• In the United States, new sales offices have been opened in New York (USA) and Miami (USA)
• In Asia, it has a presence with sales offices in China, and Seoul (South Korea).

ClarkeModet solutions.

ClarkeModet provides specialized IP services, based on its experience, technical experts, technology, and business consultancy.  Their solutions are based in:

• Advice and protect your company’s intellectual property
• Register patents, trademarks, designs, domains, and copyright around the world
• Defend Intellectual Property rights before national and international government agencies
• Shield your organization’s know-how using trade secrets and blockchain
• Monetize your intangible assets for an efficient management and maximize its benefits
• Explore the new possibilities that the digital world offers
• Innovate through technology and solutions to adapt to innovative global trends

Firm overview

IP practitioners with technical expertise.

Our international team of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law know how to successfully enforce your industrial property claims. We scrupulously and tenaciously get to the bottom of matters, breaking complex cases down in a clear and comprehensible manner, while continuing to bear our clients’ goals in mind. That’s how we find crucial, convincing arguments. And we do so with passion and a fighting spirit — this is our key to success.

Our professional expertise is also highly regarded among German and international professional organizations, at international conventions, and as consultants for the German Federal Government and for patent and trademark offices.

Competency in all fields of IP law combined with sector-specific knowledge

We offer expertise in all areas of industrial property law. Our extensive experience covers an extremely wide range of sectors from telecommunications, electrical engineering and electronics, mechanical engineering, medical technology, chemistry, software and semiconductor technology through to sport, food and fashion.

Firm overview

Elzaburu is a European IP firm based in Spain and established in 1865. It is made up of a team of lawyers, trademark attorneys, and patent attorneys in the different specialised scientific fields.

The firm deals with intellectual property law in its broadest sense: trademarks, patents, designs, copyrights, software licensing and development, technology transfer, anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy, unfair competition, domain names, personality rights, information technology, privacy issues, data protection, cybersecurity, and other commercial and financial issues relating to intangible assets, including valuation.

ELZABURU's 360º perspective enables us to furnish effective advice on all aspects of a company or individual’s creations. Working together, our lawyers, engineers, chemists, biotechnologists, and other professionals have the necessary business focus to be able to meet the needs of our clients, whatever they are, in all walks of business.

ELZABURU’s headquarters are based in Madrid and there are offices in Alicante, Valencia, and Beijing. Thanks to an extensive network of international associates and its dedicated team of international experts, the firm is also able to secure national coverage in all countries worldwide.

Firm overview

Over the last century we’ve been lucky enough to have played a part in protecting some of the world’s most ground-breaking inventions and high profile brands. You can trust us to know IP law inside out, to be curious, and to connect the dots to reach solutions others don’t.

We will provide you with a team, rich in real-world experience, comprising experts who have worked at the forefront of pioneering technologies. A substantial number of our lawyers hold qualifications in scientific or technical fields, meaning we are often called upon for our specialist knowledge and insight on large international mandates. We are respected for our creative and original solutions.

We offer both litigation and transactional support in relation to all IP rights, from small innovative projects to the largest, most complex and ground-breaking transactions and disputes.

Our approach has always been centred on client service, collaborating and innovating with our clients to create bespoke solutions that make their lives easier. This includes: our 'twobirds Pattern' product, a proprietary, in-house patent valuation and analysis tool, that allows us to landscape, analyse, and value patent portfolios in an automated and sophisticated way; and our innovative and dynamic Brand Protection Reporting Portal, which uses dynamic charts that give clients an up-to-date overview of their risk profile at any given time.

Talk to us to find out how our tools, experience and our genuine passion for IP can help you devise a strategy that will help to maintain your competitive edge, whilst protecting and optimising your IP in the best way possible.

Internationally Bird & Bird has over 400 IP lawyers, attorneys and legal professionals across our 29 offices, many of whom have known each other and worked together for years, meaning we're all on the same page and offer consistency and quality that runs through all levels of seniority. We are therefore ideally placed to devise and coordinate multi-jurisdictional litigation strategies and,in the future, to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court.

Office Locations: Australia, Belgium, China, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and United States of America