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Developments on tobacco labelling and vapers with and without nicotine.

The 22 December is the deadline for the hearing and public information on the draft royal decree updating the regulation on tobacco and related products, which introduces plain packaging, regulates nicotine pouches and vapers with and without nicotine and includes restrictions on flavourings. The aim is to improve public health protection through stricter regulation adapted

Current status of the regulation on protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products

Study commissioned by the EUIPO about the Regulation (EU) 2023/2411 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 October 2023 on the protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products which entered into force on 16 November 2023 and will be fully applicable as of 1 December 2025. Among others, the Regulation stipulates

Colour graphic marks: are they sufficiently distinctive?

When applying for a trademark, we often wonder whether it will be considered descriptive, lacking in distinctive character, totally or partially similar to a PDO… and therefore rejected by the corresponding registration office, by incurring an absolute ground for refusal. In the specific case of European trademarks and absolute grounds for refusal, we must turn

Privacy Policy

Identity of the controller

Through this website, Abril Patentes y Marcas, S.L. y Abril Abogados, S.L.P. (hereinafter “ABRIL ABOGADOS”), which are co-controllers, collect personal data and information from users for storage or related use. ABRIL ABOGADOS is located at C/ Zurbano nº 76, 7º derecha, 28010 Madrid, with CIF B82976309 and B02879757, respectively.

In accordance with data protection legislation, and any other relevant and applicable laws, users are hereby informed that the personal data provided will be processed by the data controller solely for the purposes described in the corresponding form or contract.

Users are also informed that failure to provide the data requested in the forms available on the website may result in the inability to fulfill the purpose for which the data is collected.

Contact / Questions / Online Meeting

If you have filled in the contact, questions, or online meeting form ABRIL ABOGADOS on the website, we inform you that, in accordance with data protection regulation, the personal data provided will be processed by ABRIL ABOGADOS to answer your communication, query or request for a meeting, based on the consent of the data subject, given by filling in and sending the form and checking the box accepting the Privacy Policy.

Your personal data will be processed for the time strictly necessary in order to fulfil the purpose for which they were collected, unless you revoke your consent or request the erasure of your data or the opposition to the processing, and without prejudice to its retention for legal obligations applicable to ABRIL ABOGADOS.

Registration in Flash News

If you have filled in the registration form for Flash News  on the ABRIL ABOGADOS website, we inform you that the personal data provided will be processed by ABRIL ABOGADOS to manage your registration in the newsletter and any communication that may be of interest to you, based on the consent of the data subject, given by filling in and sending the form and checking the box accepting the Privacy Policy.

Your personal data will be processed until you revoke the consent given or request the erasure of your data or the opposition to the processing, and without prejudice to its retention for legal obligations applicable to ABRIL ABOGADOS.

Career Opportunities

If you have sent an email through the “Professional Opportunities” section of the ABRIL ABOGADOS website, we inform you that the personal data provided will be processed by ABRIL ABOGADOS to manage your application in current or future selection processes of ABRIL ABOGADOS, based on the application of precontractual measures and the consent of the data subject, given by submitting or sending your curriculum vitae, where the data provided has no direct connection with the candidature.

Your data will be retained for a period no longer than 24 months, unless you revoke the consent given or request the erasure of your data or the opposition to the processing, and without prejudice to its retention for legal obligations applicable to ABRIL ABOGADOS.

For all processings activities

Communication of data to third parties

When the companies identified at the beginning of this Privacy Policy as ABRIL ABOGADOS transfer personal data to each other, they will do so as co-controllers.

It is possible that, for the correct provision of some services, ABRIL ABOGADOS may communicate specific personal data to third parties who in turn provide services: solicitors, notaries, experts, and other professionals who are necessary for the execution of the contract, who will in turn act as the parties responsible for your personal data.

Likewise, if the service contract requires it, personal data may be transferred to other companies or professionals who will act as data processors. In the case of newsletters, we inform you that your email address may be communicated to the MailChimp data center, located in the United States, solely for the purpose of allowing ABRIL ABOGADOS to send periodic communications to users of their databases. You can access the MailChimp privacy policy by clicking here.

In this sense, ABRIL ABOGADOS will have the corresponding data processing agreements with third parties who process or access the personal data of ABRIL ABOGADOS, in compliance with data protection regulations.

Exercise of rights

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, oppose, limit the processing, and request the portability of your personal data, as well as the right to revoke your consent at any time. You may exercise them by proving your identity, by sending a communication to Zurbano nº 76, 7º derecha, Madrid 28010, or by email to abril@abrilabogados.com.

ABRIL ABOGADOS undertakes to address requests either by email or by letter. ABRIL ABOGADOS will reply within one month of receiving the request. However, an extension of two months may be considered, depending on the complexity of the request and the number of requests. Such an extension will be communicated within one month after the application submission.

Lastly, in particular when you are not satisfied with the response to the exercise of your rights, you have the right to file a complaint with the national supervisory authority, the Spanish Data Protection Agency, either through their website (www.aepd.es) or by writing to their postal address (C/Jorge Juan, 6, 28001-Madrid).

Maintenance of the data

The data subject undertakes to keep the data provided to ABRIL ABOGADOS duly updated. If the data provided by the data subject is false, incomplete, not updated, or inaccurate, they will be responsible for any damage, direct or indirect, material or immaterial, caused to a third party or to ABRIL ABOGADOS. ABRIL ABOGADOS reserves the right to terminate the services provided to the data subject, as well as any relationship, without prejudice to any other legal action that may be taken.

Use of cookies

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Data Security

ABRIL ABOGADOS has implemented the security measures required by the Personal Data Protection regulations in its work centers, premises, systems, and communications infrastructures. It has also adopted logical, physical, organizational, and contractual measures to prevent unauthorized access, destruction, modification, reproduction, dissemination, transmission, or reuse of data.

However, whenever you provide personal information on the network, there is a risk that third parties, beyond our control, may intercept this information and use it. Although ABRIL ABOGADOS strives to protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of the information you disclose online, and you do so at your own risk.

Validity and modification of the privacy policy

The Privacy Policy established by ABRIL ABOGADOS is in force from the date of its publication on the corresponding website; users may archive and/or reproduce it.

This Policy may be modified due to changes in the requirements established by the legislation in force, judicial decisions, changes in case law, or changes in the actions and business strategy of ABRIL ABOGADOS. The publication and access by users will be made through this site, and it is understood that the relationships established with them prior to the change will be governed by the rules provided at the time the website was accessed for its establishment.

Reviewed, on April 15, 2024.