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Miquel Montañá

Miquel Montañá specialises in dispute resolution (including arbitration), intellectual property and competition law.

Miquel has worked on multi-jurisdictional intellectual property and commercial disputes involving patents, trademarks, unfair competition, distribution and agency agreements, copyright and breach of confidential information.

Advising and representing a major manufacturer of smoking paper in the contractual matters arising from the distribution network and in all its trademark and unfair competition matters in Spain
Representing one of the largest food and beverages company in patent, trademark and unfair competition proceedings with regard to the selling of coffee capsules
Representing one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies in patent infringement proceedings against all the companies that launched generics of Viagra
Representing a multinational electronics and information technology company in an action for declaration of non-infringement filed by its main competitor in relation to a tablet design
Representing an American global cigarette and tobacco company in an over EUR€8 million claim for damages

Contact details

Clifford Chance, Barcelona
+34933442223
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Practice area Intellectual property, Litigation & dispute resolution, Antitrust competition, EU & trade
Sector Healthcare, life sciences & chemicals, Telecommunications, media & technology

Career and qualifications

University of Barcelona (LLB) 1989
Lecturer on European Law at several universities since 1990
Masters Degree in European Community Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona 1991
Harvard University (LLM) 1992
Admitted as an abogado in Madrid 1993
Joined Clifford Chance 1993
University of Barcelona (LLD) 1995
Partner since 2000
Lecturer of International Law at ESADE - Universitat Ramón Llull 2014
Speaks Spanish, Catalan, French and English

Professional bodies

Member of the Editorial Board of Comunicaciones en Propiedad Industrial y Derecho de la Competencia” (Communications in IP and Competition Law), “Cuadernos de Derecho Farmacéutico” (Pharmaceutical Law Journal) and “Revista Española de Economía de la Salud - ReES" (Spanish Health Economics Journal).
Currently the editor of “Patent World” and “Kluwer Patent Blog” for Spain

Awards and citations

"He is one of the only "ten star individuals"."
Chambers 2012
"Miquel Montañá is the best pharma patent litigator in Spain. He always finds the best solution."
Chambers 2012
"An absolute star ", Miquel Montañá is "a wonderful lawyer who has achieved many important results in court."
IAM 2012

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