Practices and Sectors

• Intellectual Property and Technology

Profile

Rais Amils joined Pérez-Llorca in 2022 as an Industrial Property partner. Rais has more than 20 years of experience and has spent her entire career at a prestigious international firm.

Studies:

• 2006 Diploma of Advanced Studies, Universitat Central de Barcelona
• 2001 Master’s Degree in European Law, College of Europe
• 2000 Degree in Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Prize for Extraordinary Achievement)

She speaks Spanish, Catalan, English, French and Italian.

Experience

Rais specialises in intellectual property litigation, mostly representing innovative companies in the pharmaceutical sector in the defence of their patents. She also has experience in trademark, design, unfair competition and competition law litigation.

Academic and Publishing Collaborations

Rais regularly lectures on competition and industrial property law at the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE) and at the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB). She has also been invited to speak at various specialised forums, such as the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI), the Centro de Estudios para el Fomento de la Investigación (CEFI) and the Universidad Central de Barcelona.

She has published many articles in specialised journals on competition and industrial property law matters, and has also contributed to joint works on this subject.

Other publications include:

• “Los pecados del padre: las filiales pueden tener que responder solidariamente de las infracciones del Derecho de la competencia cometidas por sus matrices“, written with Belén Irissarry and Begoña Barrantes Díaz, and published in Comunicaciones en Propiedad Industrial y Derecho de la Competencia, CEFI, Instituto de Derecho y Ética Industrial (IDEI), issue 94, September – December 2021.
• Chapter “Spain” of “The Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review”, The Law Reviews, 6th ed., July 2021
• Chapter “Spain” of the “ICC Compendium of Antitrust Damages Actions”, coordinated by the ICC, March 2021.
• Chapter “Spain” of “The Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review”, The Law Reviews, 5th ed., July 2020
• “La legitimación pasiva en el cártel de los camiones: ¿Debe responder la filial por los daños generados por su matriz como consecuencia de una infracción del derecho de la competencia?“, published in Comunicaciones en Propiedad Industrial y Derecho de la Competencia, CEFI, Instituto de Derecho y Ética Industrial (IDEI), issue 88, September – December 2019.
• Chapter “Spain” of “The Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review”, The Law Reviews, 4th ed., August 2019
• Chapter “12. IP Law and Pharmaceuticals: Patents and Supplementary Protection Certificates in the Pharmaceutical Sector” from the joint publication “EU Law of Competition and Trade in the Pharmaceutical Sector”, Elgar Competition Law and Practice series, edited by Pablo Figueroa and Alejandro Guerrero Pérez, Edward Elgar Publishing, June 2019.
• “La Directiva ECN+: armonización de los poderes de las autoridades nacionales para una aplicación más efectiva del derecho europeo de defensa de la competencia“, published in Comunicaciones en Propiedad Industrial y Derecho de la Competencia, CEFI, Instituto de Derecho y Ética Industrial (IDEI), issue 86, January – April 2019.
• “Se estrecha el cerco a los cárteles: transposición de la Directiva de daños derivados de las infracciones del derecho de la competencia en España“, written with Belén Irissarry and published in Comunicaciones en Propiedad Industrial y Derecho de la Competencia, CEFI, Instituto de Derecho y Ética Industrial (IDEI), issue 81, May – August 2017.
• “La tensión entre los derechos de propiedad industrial y el Derecho de la competencia a la vista de las recientes actuaciones y decisiones adoptadas por la Comisión Europea“, written with Miquel Montañá and published in “Anuario de la Competencia 2014”, coordinated by Lluis Cases, Ed. Fundación ICO and Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2014.
• “La aplicación pública y la aplicación privada del derecho de la competencia: clemencia“, published in “Competencia y acciones de indemnización. Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre daños derivados de ilícitos concurrenciales”, coordinated by Dr Antoni Font i Ribas and Dr Silvia Gómez Trinidad, Ed. Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2013.
• “El artículo 85.4 de la Ley 29/2006, de 26 de julio, de garantías y uso racional de los medicamentos y productos sanitarios: ¿política de promoción del genérico a costa de los principios de igualdad, seguridad jurídica, libertad de empresa y libre competencia?“, written with Carme Briera and published in Comunicaciones en Propiedad Industrial y Derecho de la Competencia, CEFI, Instituto de Derecho y Ética Industrial (IDEI), issue 68, 2013.
• “Actualidad jurisprudencial comunitaria en materia de certificados complementarios de protección“, written with Adrián Crespo and published in Comunicaciones en Propiedad Industrial y Derecho de la Competencia, CEFI, Instituto de Derecho y Ética Industrial (IDEI), issue 65, 2012.

Professional Organisations

• The Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB).
• Vice-President of the Competition and Industrial Property Law Section of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB).
• In July 2019 she was elected as Chair of the ICAB’s Competition and Industrial Property Law Commission.
• Member of the Asociación Española de Defensa de la Competencia.

Recognition

Rais Amils has been recognised in various legal directories, including:

• IP Stars Euromoney: Notable Practitioner.
• Leaders League: ‘Health & Pharmaceutical Industry’, ‘Patent Litigation’ and ‘Trademark litigation’
• IAM Patent 1000: Litigation
• Best Lawyers®: ‘Intellectual Property’ and ‘Litigation’.