Copyright is limited in time. In Spain, and in most European countries, generally the duration of the copyright of a work is the life of the author plus seventy years after his death. When the term of protection of rights has expired, the work or...
On 14 January last, the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) assumed direct competence for resolving applications for invalidity and revocation. With this change, the Trademark Law establishes that: The competence to declare the invalidity and revocation of the distinctive signs regulated in this Law shall correspond directly...
After much expectation, a long wait and not without controversy, the new Spanish Sports Law was published last December 31. It establishes the new legal regulatory framework for sport. According to the Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD), it responds to the regulatory renewal that the...
The Government of Belize deposited its instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol with WIPO on 24 November 2022 and it will enter into force on 24 February 2023. Belize is the most recent addition to the Madrid System. With it, an international trademark can at present designate up to 129 countries. The Madrid...
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for trusting us and wish you all the best for the festive season, hoping that 2023 will bring peace. Due to public holidays our offices will be closed on 26 December 2022 and 6 January 2023....
We are making it simpler! As of 31 October 2022, our domain name will be: curell.com Our general e-mail will be: mail@curell.com and for our Madrid and Alicante offices: madrid@curell.com and alicante@curell.com, respectively. For the members of our team the new e-mails will look like this: xxx@curell.com, ‘xxx’ standing...
The "Ideas Powered for business" SME Fund is a grant scheme designed to assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the EU in the field of intellectual property (IP) rights. It is a European Commission initiative implemented by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and...
This autumn, the lawyers of our firm María Ceballos and Emil Edissonov have once again received the distinction of Rising Star in IP from the prestigious publication Managing Intellectual Property. Congratulations to both of them! Team recognition is important to us....
We are pleased to inform you that Carles Molina, telecommunications engineer of our patent department, has obtained the title of European Patent Attorney, after successfully passing the European Qualifying Examination, EQE. This exam is a test that assesses the knowledge and skills of candidates to...
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