Uría Menéndez offers a comprehensive IP practice capable of addressing a wide range of trade mark matters across the media, tech, and automotive sectors. With expertise in both national and international litigation and prosecution, the firm routinely advises prominent multinational clients. Leading the team are Montiano Monteagudo, a key contact for clients in the pharmaceutical and telecoms industries, Ingrid Pi, recognised for her expertise in designing complex trade mark portfolio strategies, and Borja Sainz de Aja, who maintains an active contentious and non-contentious trade mark practice. IP litigation specialists Carles Vendrell and Francisco Javier García complete the leadership team.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge
Key clients
- Magic Box Int. Toys, S.L.U.
- Value Retail
- Mediaset Spain
- Acciona
- García Baquero
- Ineos
- Cabify
- Wallapop
- Champagne Louis Roederer
- EDreams
- Glovo
Work highlights
Advised Value Retail on trade mark infringement litigation, culminating in a Supreme Court ruling in February 2025 confirming Value Retail’s exclusive rights over its family of "word + Village" trade marks for shopping centres in Spain.
Advised eDreams, a leading global online travel agency, on successful proceedings against a major European airline, resulting in a court ruling ordering the airline to cease and publicly correct defamatory statements made against the client.
Advised a leading Spanish cheese producer on a high-profile dispute with a denomination of origin relating an alleged infringement of protected rights.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Practice head
Montiano Monteagudo; Ingrid Pi; Borja Sainz de Aja; Carles Vendrell; Francisco Javier García