TEAM / OF COUNSEL

Manuel Desantes
Of Counsel
Director for Asia
mdr@elzaburu.es
Professional Profile
Former Vice President, Directorate General 5 (Legal/International Affairs), European Patent Office, 2001-2008
Former Director, Magister Lvcentinvs Master in Intellectual and Industrial Property (University of Alicante), 1994-1998
Deputy Chancellor and Acting Chancellor, Alicante University, 1996-1998
Seconded national expert with the European Commission’s Legal Service in charge of intellectual property and e-commerce affairs, 1998-2000
Director, Department of Philosophy of Law and Private International Law, Alicante University, since 2011
Vice-Chairman, National Design Council of Spain, since 2011
Director General, Red Iberoamericana de Marcas [IberoAmerican Trademark Network] (RIMARCAS), since 2010
Commissioner of the Government of France for the creation of l’École de l’innovation et de l’immatériel
Corresponding member for Spain, Fondation pour le Droit continental, Paris, since 2011
Member, Eisenhower Foundation, since 1998
Member of the Board, Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle, CEIPI, Strasbourg, since 2009
Founding Advisory Board member, Alberto Elzaburu Foundation, since 2012
Member, Editorial Board, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, London, since 2009
Member, Editorial Board, Actas de Derecho Industrial y Derecho de Autor, Santiago de Compostela, since 2009
Member, Academic Council, Patrimonio Cultural: Regulación y Propiedad Intelectual-Industrial Magazine, since 2011
Co-editor, The European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN) Book Series, since 2010
Member, City of Alicante Planning Commission, since 2012
Member, Board of Patrons, Alicante Provincial Council Auditorium Foundation (ADDA), since 2011
Former member, Board of Trustees, Max Planck Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Wettbewerbs-und Steuerrecht, Munich, 2001-2008
Distinguished Cross of the Order of Saint Raymond of Penyafort, First Class
Advisory Expert selected by the China National Advisory Center for Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Settlement (CNIPA)
Qualifications
Law Degree (University of Valencia) LLD (Alicante University)
Chair in Private International Law at the Oviedo University since 1992 and the Alicante University since 1993
Master in International and Comparative Law (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels)
Intern with the European Commission’s Legal Service at The Hague Academy of International Law and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Lausanne)
Practice Areas
Copyright and authors rights
Trademarks and tradenames
Patents and industrial designs
Languages
Catalonian, Spanish, French, English
Association membership
AIPPI, INTA, LES
With the firm since
2010
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艾萨博睿关于公司内部采取措施,以及西班牙宣…
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