Javier Fernández-Lasquetty

Javier Fernández-Lasquetty is one of the leading national experts in intellectual and industrial property, IT and image rights. His professional career in the whole of the institutional sphere linked to his speciality is noteworthy. He is President of the Madrid Bar Intellectual Property Section, panelist of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center and member of its Advisory Board, as well as of the board of directors of DENAE (Entertainment Law) and of LES Spain & Portugal and Co Vice-Chair of the LES International Trademarks, Designs, and merchandising Committee. He is also an active member of AIPPI, ALAI and INTA.

Of counsel in the area of Information Technology. Prior to joining Ramón y Cajal Abogados, Javier was Legal Counsel and General Legal Counsel in several IT and consultancy companies, as well as IP/IT partner at a multinational law firm and at another Spanish IP law firm.

Member of the Madrid Bar Association (Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid).

Author of numerous publications in different legal journals, among the most recent ones:

• “Patentes y secreto empresarial: Cohabitación, complementariedad, integración”. In: Reflexiones sobre la Propiedad Industrial en el siglo XXI, pp.901-925. Aranzadi, 2023.

• “La implementación de la directiva de secretos empresariales: nueva ley y nuevas reglas del juego”, coauthor. In: Actualidad Mercantil, Tirant lo Blanch, 2019.

• “Indicaciones geográficas y denominaciones de origen”, coauthor. In: Alimentación y bebidas (Food & Beverages), v. II, pp. 1045-1067. Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 2018.

• Fashion Law (Derecho de la moda), coauthor. Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 2018.

• “Los retos de la inteligencia artificial para el derecho. Especial referencia a su intersección con la propiedad intelectual”, coauthor. In: Actualidad mercantil 2018, pp.437-457. Tirant lo Blanch.

• “El acuerdo de coexistencia de marcas y su influencia en procedimientos de infracción y nulidad posteriores”. In: Anuario contencioso para abogados. Wolters Kluwer, 2015.

• “El riesgo de dilución por empañamiento como motivo de infracción de marca comunitaria y nulidad de marca española posterior”. In: Anuario contencioso para abogados. Wolters Kluwer, 2013.

He is currently lecturer and coordinator of Intellectual Property in LLM programmes at IE Law School, and invited professor in Master's programmes at Universidad Carlos III, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad de Alicante and Universidad de Navarra.