Within the field of the legal protection of inventions, intellectual property and copyright are fundamental assets. Patents and trademarks play a key role in the protection of intangible assets in general and, in particular, in the pharmaceutical sector.
Copyright law, as part of intellectual property, is also specifically addressed in one of the sections of our journal Comunicaciones, where we analyse and monitor the most relevant issues in this field.
This distinction between industrial property and intellectual property does not exist in English, where the broader concept of intellectual property is used to encompass both industrial property and copyright. For this reason, on CEFI’s English-language website this distinction does not exist, and all references are made to intellectual property.
We analyse legal developments, legislative reforms and case law from a legal perspective, and we work to ensure effective protection of patents and trademarks. We produce legal studies and reports, publications, courses and seminars, and we direct a significant part of our institutional activity towards this objective.
We monitor developments in industrial property at both national and European level, analyse them legally and disseminate the results with the aim of contributing to stronger protection. Part of this dissemination is carried out through our journals: Comunicaciones in Industrial Property and Competition Law, which includes a specific section on industrial property, and Cuadernos de Pharmaceutical Law, where we address current and relevant industrial property issues in the pharmaceutical sector from both a doctrinal and case-law perspective.
To this end, we rely on collaborators who are leading experts in industrial property, with both theoretical and practical experience, and who carry out these analyses.
