Mercedes Corbal
Mercedes is an Intellectual Property counsel and Industrial Property Agent at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo.
She specialises in providing legal advice to national and international clients on trademarks, designs, unfair competition and advertising. As an Industrial Property Agent, she represents national and international clients and manages their portfolios in the different trademark offices.
She has extensive experience in trademark invalidity, revocation and infringement litigation before commercial, administrative and EU courts. She provides ongoing legal advice to companies in relation to the protection of their trademark portfolios, as well as compliance with advertising and unfair competition rules. She has extensive experience in administrative proceedings before the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office and the European Union Intellectual Property Office. Mercedes assists clients in the design and protection of their new projects and in the preparation of proofs of use and pleadings on the reputation and notoriety of their trademarks. She represents clients in advertising matters before the Association for the Self-Regulation of Commercial Communication (Autocontrol).
She holds a Law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and a master’s degree in Copyright and Information Technology from the Carlos III University (Spain), as well as a master’s degree in Intellectual Property and Information Technology “Magister Lvcentinvs, LL.M” from the University of Alicante (Spain).
Mercedes has been recognised in 2022 and 2023 by the prestigious legal directories Chambers & Partners as an Associate to Watch in Intellectual Property: Patents & Trade Marks, in Legal 500 as “Rising Star” in IP Trademarks and World Trademark Review and has participated as author or co-author in various specialised legal publications and teaches about trademarks and defence of rights in several master’s degrees in industrial property.
She is a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) and the Association of European Trade Mark Owners (MARQUES).
Areas and sectors in which she collaborates
I have carried out numerous national and international matters with Gómez-Acebo & Pombo.
She joins Gómez-Acebo & Pombo in 2007 and becomes a counsel in 2024.
2005 | Degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).
2006 | Master’s degree in Copyright and Information Technologies from the Carlos III University (Spain).
2007 | Master’s degree in Intellectual Property and Information Technology “Magister Lvcentinvs, LL.M” from the University of Alicante (Spain).
2011 | Course on advertising regulation from the Association for the Self-Regulation of Commercial Communication (AUTOCONTROL).
Member of the Madrid Bar Association (since 2008).
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