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Mª DOLORES FERNANDEZ-VILLA

Patent Department
Degree:
  • Master´s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
  • European Patent Attorney (EQE).
Practice Areas:
  • Drafting and prosecution of Patent and Utility Model applications before the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and foreign jurisdictions, especially in America and Asia.
  • State-of-the-art searches.
  • Drafting of patentability, infringement, validity and freedom to operate (FTO) reports.
  • Preparation and prosecution of oppositions and appeals before the SPTO and EPO, as well as invalidity proceedings before the Courts.
  • Industrial designs before the EUIPO and foreign jurisdictions.
  • Opinion and technical advice on patent and industrial design strategies.
  • Technical areas related to mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering, thermodynamics or hydraulics, electrotechnology and computer-implemented inventions.
Training:
  • Course on European Patent Law. Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI - Industrial Organization School), in collaboration with the European Patent Institute(EPI) Centre d´Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI), and the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (Spain).
Professional Career:

Prior to joining UNGRIA´s Madrid office, she gained extensive experience as a technical patent adviser in Industrial and Intellectual Property firms in Madrid, Spain. She also acquired experience in industrial and mechanical designs at a well-known multinational company specializing in industrial manufacturing.

Since joining UNGRIA in 2021, she has dedicated her professional activity to technical advice on the filing, prosecution and defense of patents and utility models, specializing in areas related to mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering, as well as inventions in the field of thermodynamics, hydraulics or electrotechnology, and computer-implemented inventions.

Additionally, she has focused her professional activity on drafting technical reports on strategies for the protection of inventions at the national and international level, opposition or invalidity proceedings before the SPTO, EPO or Courts, as well as the filing and prosecution of industrial designs.

Languages: Spanish, English, French, German

In UNGRIA since: 2021