Partner
- Lawyer (2010)
- EUIPO Professional Representative (2016)
She joined CURELL SUÑOL in 2010. She advises clients on matters related to trademarks, industrial designs, copyright, patents, unfair competition, and domain names. She represents clients in commercial and contentious-administrative proceedings before the Spanish Courts, administrative proceedings before the SPTO and the EUIPO in relation to trademarks and designs and contentious proceedings before the CJUE in matters of EU trademarks. She also conducts customs surveillance, as well as intervention in police actions (counterfeiting), assesses regarding matters of domain names and conducts clearing and availability searches on earlier rights. She represents clients in patent prosecution cases (including patent infringement matters). She is also specialized in the defence and preparation of re-establishment of rights proceedings (patents).
She formerly worked as a supervisor in official English exams for foreigners for the University of Cambridge, as a clerk and secretary at the Lewis School of Languages. She also worked as a training lawyer in the offices of the court proxy Karina Sales Comes and as a law clerk in the Law Firm Coma & Roig. She has collaborated pro bono with the entities for the defence of human rights Amnesty International and Save the Children.
She has a degree in Law from the University of Barcelona (2008); a Post-degree in International Law in Human Rights (International Human Rights and Field Operations, Issues in International Human Rights Law and Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice), from the University of Nottingham (U.K.).
She has further taken various specialized courses and lectures specializing in Intellectual Property rights as well as in other legal areas. She has participated in the preparation of the AIPPI Spanish Group’s reports, relating to different IP issues. She has attended the course “Re-establishment of rights proceedings before the EPO” organized by the Forum für Institut Management GmbH.
She has participated in conferences and education programmes, among which we highlight “IX Jornada de Barcelona sobre Derecho de la Propiedad Industrial” as a moderator of the session “Protección de las denominaciones de origen y las indicaciones geográficas: referencia especial a los productos vitivinícolas”, Barcelona 8/11/2018 and “Cómo Proteger tu Diseño en el Mundo Físico y Digital”, Panelist, presentation «Derechos del titular del diseño y acciones contra copias», Conference within the program of “Barcelona Design Week 2022”, Barcelona, Spain, 21/06/2022
Memberships:
- Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB)
- International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
- International Trademark Association (INTA)- Brands for a Better Society Committee
- Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG)
She speaks English, Spanish, Catalan and French.
