Year of GDPR: What Have We Learned?

On 25 May the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) began to apply directly. The regulation, motivated by current technological advances and the complexity of the processing of personal data, was intended to find a new formula to guarantee an adequate level of protection for natural persons in the European Union and avoid divergences that hinder the free circulation of personal data within the internal market.

This entry was posted on 13 May 2019 by Consuelo Álvarez in IT and Data Protection.

The Government Approves a Royal Decree-Law with Urgent Measures to Adapt to the EU Regulations on Data Protection

It entered into force on 31 July 2018: Royal Decree-Law 5/2018, of 27 July, on urgent measures to adapt Spanish law to the European Union regulations on data protection, approved by the Ministers’ Council and published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on 30 July 2018. While the Draft Organic Law navigates through parliament, the Government has approved these regulations to adapt the data protection regulations to the General Data Protection Regulation, directly applicable since 25 May 2018.

This entry was posted on 9 August 2018 by Consuelo Álvarez in IT and Data Protection.

The Protection Of Fashion Creations And Knock-Offs

The protection of designs in the fashion industry continues to be an unresolved problem. Much of the current litigation in the clothing sector deals with infraction of industrial design due to the increase in “knockoffs” of designers’ creations. In the fashion industry there is still discrepancy about whether knockoffs are authentic copies of the original designs or if they are simply inspirations.

This entry was posted on 17 April 2018 by Vanessa Guzek in IP.

The return of the “digital canon” in Spain

Directive 2001/29/EC determined the introduction of certain limits to intellectual property rights, inter alia, the patrimonial right to reproduction, which allows the holder to authorise or prohibit the production of copies of his work.

This entry was posted on 10 July 2017 by Consuelo Álvarez in IT and Data Protection.

Spain’s new Patent Act: the key points

On April 1st the new Patent Act (“PA”) (“Ley 24/2015, de 24 de julio, de Patentes”) will substitute the current legislation. The main aim of the new Act is to simplify the patent protection of innovation and promote legal certainty by establishing a single method of patent granting, which requires a prior examination of novelty and inventive step.

This entry was posted on 22 May 2017 by Consuelo Álvarez in IP.

The Worst Crime against Fashion outside the Red Carpet

Despite the international recognition of the Spanish Fashion Industry, Spain appears be one of the EU member states that is most impacted by intellectual property rights infringements.

This entry was posted on 22 May 2017 by Consuelo Álvarez in IP.