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Ricardo Gómez-Barreda de la Gándara
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Ricardo Gómez-Barreda de la Gándara

Languages
  • Spanish
  • English

Ricardo Gómez Barreda is a lawyer in the Intellectual and Industrial Property and Digital Business practice at CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo. He specialises in both contentious and non‑contentious advice on intellectual and industrial property, trade secrets, unfair competition and digital business matters. His practice covers copyright, trademarks, designs and patents, as well as issues related to advertising, image rights, data protection and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data and e‑commerce. 

He has a strong litigation background, having successfully appeared before Courts of First Instance, Provincial Courts, the Spanish Supreme Court, the General Court of the European Union and the Court of Justice of the European Union, as well as in arbitration proceedings. He regularly advises national and international companies in sectors such as audiovisual, telecommunications, digital platforms, technology start‑ups, media, consumer goods and pharmaceuticals.

Relevant experience

  • Ricardo has given professional advice to companies across a wide range of matters including, for example, contentious and non-contentious IP legal advice on patent issues relating to medicines for a leading pharmaceutical company; he also gave advice during sponsorship negotiations between a leading telecommunications company and a player from the La Liga Spanish professional football league. Ricardo has given professional advice to the Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia de la Lengua Española) concerning intellectual and industrial property protection for content owned by the academy. He has given advice to and represented a tech start-up company in an unfair competition dispute, claiming trade names and utility models.

Publications

  • On the publication online, without the consent of the rightholder, of a photograph previously published on another website without any restrictions and with the consent of the rightholder – Case C-161/17. In: “Landmark IP Decisions of the European Court of Justice 2014-2018”. Larcier Legal. 2019.
  • Fake news. In: "Commentary on Intellectual Property and Competition Law nº. 83 (January - April 2018)". CEF Foundation. 2018.

Education

  • 2018 - Master's Degree in Civil Law, Escuela de Técnica Jurídica, Madrid (Spain).
  • 2015 - Master's Degree in Intellectual Property, Industrial Property and New Technologies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). 
  • 2014 - Graduate of Law and Degree in Business Management, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros, Madrid (Spain).
  • 2013 - Course on Intellectual Property, London School of Economics, London (United Kingdom).

Insights by Ricardo

CMS at INTA 2026

02 May 2026

2025 ITechLaw European Conference in London

29 Oct 2025

CMS at Mobile World Congress

03 Mar 2025

2024 ITechLaw European Conference in Munich

30 Oct 2024
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