Industrial property is one of a company’s most valuable assets. A strong trademark, a protected invention or a registered design does more than set you apart in the market: it enables you to monetise innovation, reinforce your commercial strategy and even benefit from favourable tax regimes in certain jurisdictions.
At Audens, we help protect and leverage all types of industrial property assets, from initial filings to responding to unauthorised uses by third parties. We register trademarks, patents and industrial designs, advise on licensing and assignment agreements, manage domain name disputes and design protection systems for trade secrets.
Our approach combines legal expertise with strategic insight, ensuring that industrial property is not only a defensive safeguard but a genuine driver of business value.
Trademarks and trade names
We handle national and international filings and renewals, submit oppositions against conflicting signs and draft licensing, assignment and coexistence agreements.
Inventions and designs
We register patents, utility models and industrial designs, and act against infringements or unauthorised uses, both in administrative and judicial proceedings.
Domain names
We intervene in domain name disputes through arbitration or court proceedings, negotiations or preventive registrations, protecting our clients’ digital identity.
Trade secrets
We design strategies to protect know-how and trade secrets, drafting confidentiality clauses and NDAs, as well as technology transfer or franchise agreements.
Due diligence
We audit industrial property portfolios in investment, acquisition or expansion processes, identifying risks and proposing corrective measures.
Trademark watching
Our monitoring system detects attempts to register similar trademarks and allows us to act quickly when conflicts arise.
Key experience
We provided strategic advice to a corporate group in the design, registration and protection of its brand architecture. Our work included creating a coherent trademark family, filing in multiple classes and securing international protection in the European Union and several Latin American jurisdictions, ensuring robust coverage in key markets.
We prepared and filed a patent application for a multicore processor, coordinating the drafting of claims and the required technical and legal documentation. The patent was later assessed with a highly significant economic valuation, allowing the company to pursue several investment rounds.
We obtained confirmation by the administrative courts of a trademark grant challenged by a third party alleging a likelihood of confusion. The judgment fully dismissed the appeal, upheld the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office’s decision, confirmed the validity of the registration and awarded costs against the claimant.
We represented a client in a dispute brought by a competitor for alleged trademark infringement, unfair competition and improper domain name use. We demonstrated that the use was legitimate, descriptive and free of any risk of confusion, securing full dismissal of the claim and subsequent appeals, with costs awarded at all stages.
