
International legal services firm
Our reason for being is to maintain a strong and constant commitment to the business and cultural progress of our country. We help our clients to transform their inventions, innovations, creations and data into intangible assets, through the implementation of a personalized strategy, integrated in the general business plan of the companies.
ELZABURU advises all types of clients, from large corporations to SMEs, accompanying them and collaborating in their process of national and international expansion.
The emergence of new technologies has made copyright an area of law that is subject to continuous review and revision. Legislative initiatives are ongoing both nationally and in Europe and elsewhere internationally. Our Firm has been in the forefront of the fight to set up a suitable legal framework that will strike a balance between respecting the basic rights and principles of the information society and protecting intellectual creations in the digital age.
Copyright and Authors’ Rights
Trademarks and Tradenames
Our Firm specializes in intellectual property, that is, in furnishing full-service advice aimed at assuring our clients effective legal protection for their interests in trademarks and tradenames and in all distinctive signs generally; this naturally extends to management, prosecution, and handling services as well as representation before national, Community, and international trademark authorities, as appropriate.
Linking goods or services to a specific geographical location is today a highly effective means of attracting and keeping a customer base, thanks to the positive associations this calls forth in the minds of consumers as a result of the specific, objective natural and/or human attributes and the subjective connotations attaching to the place of production. As a consequence, designations and other indicators of geographical origin are growing both in number and in importance in the marketplace.
Geographical Indications and other Quality Designations
Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation
Dispute avoidance strategies need to consider that at some point, sooner or later, it may be necessary to resort to the courts to recover a right or defend against a third-party claim. ELZABURU’s contentious practice has undergone enormous growth in recent years because of the vast experience accrued and the high prestige attained by its team of litigation lawyers.
Anticounterfeiting and Antipiracy
Intangibles and Commercial Contracts
Personality Rights and Corporate Reputation
With entry into force of the Organic Data Protection Act, Act No. 15/1999 of 13 December 1999 (“the LOPD” according to its Spanish abbreviation), it became mandatory for companies, associations, and professionals to bring their data files into compliance with the requirements laid down in that Act to ensure the fundamental right to protection of all personal data relating to personal and family honour, dignity, and privacy.
Data Protection
The Internet has transformed how business is done and how persons and companies communicate. But along with the many new benefits ushered in by the web, the Internet has also engendered new legal problems that have the potential to be particularly harmful because the medium lends itself to rapid, broad exposure.
New Technologies: Internet, E-Commerce and Social Networking
IP Media & Entertainment
Trade Secrets (Commercial and Technical/ Know How)
Breeding new plant varieties diversifies natural species and makes available plants and seeds which are better adapted to specific climatic conditions, more productive, or more nutritious or which have new aesthetic or other attributes. Breeders of new plant varieties are entitled to recognition for their efforts through registration – for a limited time – of an exclusive right similar to a patent, the plant breeder’s right.