Iván Sempere

He leads and coordinates the team managing all actions related to the protection and defence of IP rights such as litigation, cancellation actions before the Offices, customs intervention, agreements, licenses or the defence of rights and reputation in the digital field.
Doctor cum laude in commercial law of Industrial Property (protection of forms by IP and unfair competition) and Honorary Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Alicante, attorney, commercial mediator, designated EU expert in cooperation projects with the EUIPO and Official Industrial Property Agent accredited before EUIPO, OEPM and EPO.
His time at the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office has allowed him to better understand the perspective of Patent and Trademark Offices, an essential issue for outlining protection strategies in companies. In terms of IP, he works for multiple national and multinational companies with a strong focus on the protection and defence of design and commercial presentations. In fact, he was the Chairman of the INTA Design Committee, IP Counsel of the Valencia World Design Organization and responsible for the Spanish group of the Design presentation at the AIPPI International Congress. He was a drafting member of the CP10 Working Group on the disclosure of designs on the Internet promoted by the EUIPO and has been included in the list of Auditors of the EUIPO design decisions. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Defence of the Brand (ANDEMA) and the INTA Programming Advisory Board.
At an academic level, Iván is frequently invited as a professor and speaker at universities and business schools in Spain, the United States, LATAM and Asia. Author of more than thirty publications and monographs on the subject, he is especially recognized for his research and contributions to the protection and defence of industrial design and 3D trademarks. On the other hand, the experience in their family businesses, public and private boards of directors, as well as having held positions of business representation, such as the European presidency of Young Entrepreneurs or the University-Business Foundation -among others-, is the reason for their empathy and understanding of business needs.