After working at the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, with a wide experience there, he is a practising lawyer specialized in design protection & enforcement, as well as commercial mediator and legal expert in the Intellectual Property (IP) field. He heads and coordinates the IP defence actions for different national and international companies currently Vice chairing the INTA Design Committee, where he chaired the Law & Practice SC (2018-2020), and has been heading the Spanish Group in the Design Committee of the 2016 AIPPI World Congress in Milan. He participated in the CP10 Working Group in representation of INTA and has been included in the EUIPO List of Auditors “Quality Management Systems” for 2019 SQAP audits (Stakeholder Quality Assurance Panels) on designs invalidity decisions. He also coordinates the Intellectual Property and Innovation group of the Spanish Association for Trademarks Protection & Enforcement (ANDEMA), as well as counsel at several academic and business institutes and organizations.
He is very much linked and committed to the business world and entrepreneurship, having been the President of the University Enterprise Foundation –FUNDEUN (2012-2018), President of the European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs (YES) and received the AJEV Honorary Award “Young entrepreneur 2016” to his career path and the Forum Europe Gold Medal in 2013, Business Knowledge of Fundeun 2018 among other recognitions.
Recently named Honorific Professor of the University of Alicante, is regularly invited as international speaker in several master programmes and Universities, such as ICADE, George Washington University; and Business Schools, such as Fundesem, the Academy of European Law or Florida Universitaria. Regular speaker in a wide number of congresses and courses related to innovation and its protection or the development of entrepreneur values in many countries such as Spain, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Dominican Republic, etc.
He is author of numerous publications and monographs in the field of IP, particularly known because of his researches and contributions to the protection and defence of the Designs and 3D Trademarks.
