Álvaro Bourkaib
Partner
Spanish
English
French
Specialist in intellectual and industrial property, advertising and unfair competition, with a focus on new technologies and technology transfer.
Álvaro Bourkaib’s practice includes the advisory, contractual and litigation aspects of the protection and transfer of intangible assets. He designs innovative strategies for protecting and transferring those rights, thanks to his interdisciplinary knowledge of authors’ rights, neighboring rights and sui generis database rights; trade secrets; and patents, trademarks, designs, plant varieties and mask works.
He provides multijurisdictional, multicultural, crossborder advice, and has worked for international firms.
He lectures in several masters and postgraduate programs on intellectual property and technology transfer at universities and higher education centers, including Universidad Pontificia Comillas-ICADE, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and IE Business School.
He regularly participates in international conferences on intellectual property and new technologies, and is the author of leading publications in these areas.
Specialties
Education
Bachelor of Laws
Universidad Pontificia Comillas-ICADE, MadridBachelor of Business Administration and Management
Universidad Pontificia Comillas- ICADE, Madrid
Directory Mentions
Recommended lawyer
Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Leaders League, Legal 500, Best Lawyers and World Trademark Review in Intellectual Property, Competition and EU Law, Copyrights, Data Privacy and Data Protection and TMT
Global Leader
Who’s Who Legal (category: Intellectual Property 2021)
Publications and News
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December 21, 2021Recap of Flash-IT!: summary and 2021 trends
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December 14, 2021Share Purchases: Industrial and Intellectual Property Issues (Spain)
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November 4, 2021EU | Decompilation of software for error correction: CJEU judgment in Top System
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July 22, 2021Intellectual property VS freedom of expression: The advocate general’s conclusions in the polish challenge against Article 17
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July 8, 2021EU | EC guidance on art 17 of the copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market
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July 8, 2021European Network | Webinar The New Digital Package: DSA, DMA and Data Governance Act
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June 11, 2021Cuatrecasas advises SPAC Kensington Capital on merger with Wallbox and admission to trading on NYSE
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April 1, 2021Decompilation of software for error correction
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February 25, 2021Startup Menhir Financial wins fifth Cuatrecasas Acelera program
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November 16, 2020New Trust Services for Electronic Transactions Act passed, repealing the Electronic Signature Act 59/2003
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October 23, 2020Flash-IT! Twenty-minute technology law updates
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October 5, 2020Digital Bootcamp kicks off with six startups selected by Cuatrecasas Acelera
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September 25, 2020Proposed EU Regulation for Markets in Crypto-assets
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July 2, 2020CNMC guidelines on processing confidential information in unfair competition proceedings
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November 26, 2019We launch app to share latest developments in intellectual property
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June 13, 2019Private equity continues to drive activity and reaches €3 billion mark in 2019
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February 13, 2019Blocktac and FuVeX are winners of third Cuatrecasas Acelera program