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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 an Associate of the Industrial / Intellectual Property & Digital Business department at CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo. He specialises in intellectual and industrial property, trade secrets, unfair competition and digital business.

Moreover, his practice spans both contentious and non-contentious issues in relation to copyright, trademarks, designs, patents, utility models, unfair competition, advertising, image rights and privacy. Regarding contentious matters, Ricardo provides advice on disputes before the various industrial property registration authorities (SPTO, EUIPO and WIPO).

What's more, he also advises on matters relating to IT, e-commerce and personal data protection.

Ricardo's domestic and international clients belong to a wide range of sectors, including mobile phone operators, pharmaceuticals, online marketplaces, tech start-ups, advertising agencies, publishing houses, the media, television channels, major trademark owners, fast-moving consumer goods companies, software developers and IT companies.

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).