Lluís Vilalta

Associate

Barcelona Office

Professional Qualifications

  • Spanish Patent and Trademark  Agent (2009)

  • European Trademark and Design Attorney (2009)

  • European Patent Attorney (EQE, 2010)

  • Colegio de Agentes de la Propiedad Industrial (COAPI) and Gestión Inteligente de Conflictos (GIC), Specialist Course in Mediation (2023)

  • Representative before the Unified Patent Court (2024)

Academic Qualifications

  • Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), M. Sc. Industrial Engineering (1998)

  • Politecnico di Milano, European Patent Litigation Certificate (2024)

Lluís joined ABG in 2024 and is the associate in charge of the Engineering & Physics and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Departments of our Barcelona Office. He has been active in the field of Intellectual Property since 2002.

His practice focuses on IP portfolio management and drafting, filing and prosecution of patents and other IP assets. Lluís regularly serves as an expert in patent infringement and nullity litigation and provides expert opinions in cases involving design rights. He is European Patent Attorney (EQE, 2010) and Spanish Patent and Trademark Agent (2009).

“A patent agent with extensive experience before the EPO. He is highly sought after for his ability to identify the most important elements of a case, and he scrutinises every brief with a fine-toothed comb”, IAM Patent 1000

Prior to joining ABG, Lluís was a partner and head of patents at a well-known IP boutique in Barcelona.

He actively participates in professional associations such AIPPI (AIPPI), International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) and European Patent Institute (EPI). Lluís frequently lectures in IP programmes including “European Patent Law Course”, organised by the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) and the School of Industrial Organization.

Lluís is a native Spanish and Catalan speaker and is fluent in English.

Email: lvilalta@abg-ip.com

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Accolades

  • Spain, Recommended Individual, IAM Patent 1000

Publications

  • Patentability of computer simulations. Question G1/19 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO (AIPPI-XXXV Study Days on Industrial and Intellectual Property, 2020)

  • Spain’s new patent law (Mitteilungen, der deutschen Patentanwälte, Herausgegeben vom Vorstand der Patentanwaltskammer, 2017)