Jorge Llevat
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Expert advising leading companies on contracts and litigation involving industrial and intellectual property rights.
Jorge Llevat has participated in benchmark litigation proceedings in the fields of trademarks and patents, and in the field of information technology and technology transfer, leading some of the most important IT outsourcing transactions in the Spanish market.
He is a member of the Barcelona Bar Association and the New York Bar Association, and of the main associations for industrial and intellectual property. He is an arbitrator at the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization.
He lectures in the Master in IT+IP at ESADE Business & Law School, and has been coordinating the module on industrial design since 2014. He was a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb in Munich (Germany, 2015).
He has written many publications on topics related to industrial and intellectual property rights, and technology transfer, and he regularly speaks at national and international forums on these subjects.
Specialties
Education
Master of Laws
University of Chicago School of Law, 1987Bachelor of Laws
Universitat de Barcelona, 1984
Directory Mentions
Recommended lawyer
Chambers & Partners (Global and Europe), Legal 500, Leaders League, Expert Guides, European Legal Experts, IAM 1000, Managing Intellectual Property, World Trademark Review, World IP Review, Best Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal in Intellectual Property, Food & Beverage, Franchise Law, Media & Technology (TMT) and Life sciences
Lawyer of the Year
Best Lawyers in Information Technology Law (2013), Entertaiment Law (2015), Health Care Law (2017) and Advertising Law (2022)
Publications and News
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June 15, 2022Barcelona Court rules on “Champanillo” and the “Champagne” protected designation of origin
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October 25, 2021Trademark refiling: a legitimate strategy or registration in bad faith?
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October 8, 2021The brachirulo. Relevance of the product when determining if a design has individual character
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June 7, 2021Evocation in bubbles
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May 14, 2021Computer-implemented patents
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July 23, 2020New therapeutic applications of already authorized active ingredients and SPCS: the CJEU reviews its position on Neurim (CJEU judgment 07.09.2020, Santen Case, C-673/18)
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July 16, 2020About cookies and three-dimensional trademarks. European General Court judgment of May 20, 2020 (Twins Cookie Sandwich)
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May 25, 2020Third time lucky? Decision of the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal of May 14, 2020 on patentability of plants and animals
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March 31, 2020Accepted principles of morality and application for registration of “Fack Ju Göhte” as trademark
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February 5, 2020Revisiting reverse payment settlements: CJEU Judgment of January 30, 2020, Generics (UK) v Competition and Markets Authority
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January 29, 2020Administrative marketing authorizations for medicinal products: confidentiality or transparency?
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July 1, 2019Manufacturing Waiver
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February 6, 2019Broccoli, Tomatoes and peppers
Events
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November 8, 2022Flash-IT! Novedades en 20 minutos | Noviembre 2022
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June 7, 2022Flash-IT! Novedades en 20 minutos | Junio 2022
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March 1, 2022Flash-IT! Novedades en 20 minutos | Marzo 2022
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February 21, 2019Reforma de la Ley de Marcas