We offer consultancy about the constituent elements of the app or software, to protect it and file it with the different registers.

There has been a notable increase in applications for patents connected with what are known as "computer-implemented inventions", or "CII".

The definition of computer-implemented invention would apply to any the practical deployment of which requires the use of a computer, a computer network or other programmable device, where one or more characteristics are realised in whole or in part by means of a computer program.

It would be fair to say that it is now more than accepted that the patentability of an invention should not be denied simply because the execution of a computer program is required in order to implement it.

Nonetheless, in particular where the result of the computer program is not tangible in nature, and there are no physical links to the outside world, for example because the computer program does not govern any apparatus or device and/or because the computer program does not rely on physical parameters or values captured from the outside world, the need is to file the invention in accordance with the regulations and directives applied to such cases by the competent administrations, which will evaluate not only the fulfilment of the requirements of novelty and inventive step, but also whether the invention generates a technical effect.

Our team understands the growing importance of this type of invention, and pioneered the filing and granting of computer-implemented invention patents both in Spain and abroad.

We advise and defend rights in the sphere of image rights, digital replication, advertising, trademarks, designs and intellectual property via digital media.

We advise, draw up or revise software contracts, technological contracts, outsourcing and cloud computing.

We handle consultancy and registration strategy, monitoring and maintenance, negotiation and out-of-court mediation to resolve disputes, administrative procedures before the WIPO to recover domains, court procedures to recover domains at the global level, anti-fraud and cyber-squatting action; appraisal and sale and purchase.