2023 has been an intense year in the EU from a regulatory standpoint
Intellectual Property and Technology Year in Review 2023
Learn about 2023’s most important developments and the changes expected in 2024 in Technology, Pharma, Media and Fintech & Insurtech, as well as E-commerce and Retail...
Year in review 2022 Intellectual Property and Technology
It includes the year’s most representative laws, guides and judgments on trademarks, patents, technology, data protection, and copyright and related rights...
Competition Law: The European Commission provides guidance on its leniency policy and practice
The European Commission issued guidelines in question and answer format at the end of October 2022, to which we refer in this Legal Briefing...
Proposal for an AI Civil Liability Directive
The Legal Briefing deals with the recent Proposal for a Directive on civil liability for Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Tratado de la Franquicia
The CNMC’s report calls for a review of various aspects of the Draft Royal Decree that will ban the advertising of certain foods and drinks to children
In this Legal Briefing, we analyse Report IPN/CNMC/028/22, dated 20 September 2022, published by the National Commission on Markets and Competition, which examines the Draft Royal Decree prohibiting commercial communications for certain foods and bev...
Anatomy of a regulation: the Digital Markets Act
This Legal Briefing has been updated following the recent publication in the OJEU of the Digital Markets Act...
The CNMC issues its opinion on the Draft Bill for the Amendment of Industrial Property Laws
This Legal Briefing analyses the Report published by the CNMC on the Draft Bill to amend the industrial property laws promoted by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism...
The CNMC’s finding of concerted practice and market sharing is declared null and void on the grounds that the National High Court considers that the imputation of the anti-competitive infringement was not proven by circumstantial evidence
In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the judgment of the Spanish High Court that annulled a CNMC resolution on the grounds that it did not establish the existence of a breach of competition law through circumstantial evidence...
Briefing on the Supreme Court’s decision that the proceedings in which the CNMC imposed fines of 30 million euros on REPSOL and CEPSA had expired
In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the judgments of the Supreme Court that annulled two resolutions of the CNMC. The Supreme Court found that the CNMC had exceeded the 18-month deadline to conclude the proceedings...
The CNMC publishes a report on the Draft Order approving the methodology for determining the general tariffs of intellectual property rights management entities
The Legal Briefing analyses the recommendations made by the CNMC in its report IPN/CNMC/013/22 on the Draft Order...
The role of Competition Law during the pandemic debated in the first Pérez-Llorca/ICADE Chair
Pérez-Llorca and the Faculty of Law at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Comillas ICADE) organised the first session of their joint Chair on Economics and Competition Law...
Pérez-Llorca/ICADE Chair: Reflections on the role of competition in times of crisis
On 10 May at 6:30 p.m. we will hold a new Pérez-Llorca/ICADE Chair session in the auditorium of Pérez-Llorca’s offices at Paseo de la Castellana 50...
Market competition and consumer rights: analysis of CNMC reports IPN/CNMC/027/21 and IPN/CNMC/047/21 and Directive (EU) 2020/1828
This Legal Briefing analyses CNMC reports IPN/CNMC/027/21 and IPN/CNMC/047/21, as well as Directive 2020/1828...
The Universidad Pontificia Comillas and the law firm Pérez-Llorca create a chai...
Year in review 2021 Intellectual Property and Technology
Medidas cautelares y diligencias preliminares en el ámbito civil
Cases and Precedents: Cartels – Spain
Pérez-Llorca Legal Journal – December 2019
