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Cristina Bercial-Chaumier

Partner / Alicante

Attorney-at-law (Alicante Bar)

Agente de la Propiedad Industrial (Spanish Patent & Trademark Attorney)

European Trademark and Community Design Attorney

c.bercial@casalonga.com

Personal assistant : Emmanuelle Hutet

e.hutet@casalonga.com


Education

  • - IRCA Certified ISO 9001:2015 lead Auditor for quality management systems – 2018
  • - Admitted to the Paris Bar – 1995
  • - Master in Trademarks, Patents and Designs (University of Alicante) – 1995
  • - Post-graduate degree in Private International Law and International Trade (Paris II University) – 1994
  • - Diploma in Public International Law (Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales) (Paris) – 1994
  • - French Language and Civilization (Paris University) – 1993
  • - Law degree at the University of Alicante (Spain) – 1992

Practice description

Cristina is a Member of the Alicante Bar since 1994 and was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1995. She is managing the Alicante Office and became partner of CASALONGA in 2015.

Prior to joining CASALONGA in 1999, Cristina worked in the Banking Sector.

Cristina is a European Trademark and Community Design Attorney and Agente de la Propiedad Industrial (Spanish Patent & Trademark Attorney). She is in charge of all legal matters of many international companies in industrial property cases.

Her practice includes domestic and foreign trademark clearance and prosecution; opposition and appeal procedures concerning EU trademarks and Community designs before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, as well as before the Spanish Patent and Trademarks Office; counterfeit goods and customs; drafting IP contracts, including license, assignment, and coexistence agreements.

Cristina’s experience includes in particular EU trademarks, Community designs as well Spanish IP matters relating to Spanish, French and English speaking clients.

Cristina also represents clients before the Spanish courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union in EU trademark and design matters.

She represents clients in diverse industries including the pharmaceutical, medical and chirurgical sectors, as well as clothing, video games, electronic products, financial services and telecommunications areas.

Cristina has been appointed as member of “Expert Think Tank of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Intellectual Property Talent Port” for a 3-year term, from April 21, 2023 to April 21, 2026.

Adjunct teaching / Professional organizations

Cristina is IRCA Certified ISO 9001:2015 lead Auditor for quality management systems and has been participating in 2018 and 2019 at the EUIPO’s SQAP (Stakeholder Quality Assurance Panels Project) involving panels of users, representing user associations, who regularly meet on the Office premises and carry out audits on a sample of Office decisions for the external quality control.

She is the author of numerous articles in EU trademark matters as well as contributions to the European Union Chapter of the World Trademark Yearbook (World Trademark Law Review).

Cristina has been teaching at the Magister Lucentinus on Intellectual Property and Digital Innovation at the University of Alicante since 2011 at the European Union Trademarks Module which takes part at the EUIPO’s premises and at the University of Alicante.

She is actively involved in the European Community Trademarks Association (ECTA) and in the International Trademark Association (INTA).

She has served as Chair of ECTA Law Committee during five years and was a Member of the Supervisory Board. She is currently a Member of the ECTA Harmonization Committee and is the Chair of the ECTA EUIPO-Link Committee. She regularly attends to the Liaison meetings organized by the EUIPO on ECTA’s behalf.
Since January 2024, she is Co-Chair of the Opposition working group of the Enforcement Committee.

She is also a Member of the Asociación de Antigüos Alumnos del Magister Lucentinus (AAA) and a Member of the Executive Board of the Industrial Property Section of the Alicante Bar.

Latest publications

  • - May 2024 : DUTCH GENQUILA for wine held to evoke PGI ‘Tequila’ with Karina Dimidjian-Lecomte – published on WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review. For more information, see under this link
  • - January 2024 : “General Court confirms lack of likelihood of confusion between SNACK marks” with Karina Dimidjian-Lecomte – published on WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review. For more information, see under this link
  • - May 2023 : “General Court : no likelihood of confusion between BIOLARK and BIOPLAK” with Karina Dimidjian-Lecomte – published on WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review. For more information, see under this link
  • - December 2022 : “General Court considers classification of goods in Classes 7 and 8” with Karina Dimidjian-Lecomte – published on WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review. For more information, see under this link
  • - October 2022 : “Success for Jägermeister as General Court confirms likelihood of confusion between stag’s head marks” with Karina Dimidjian-Lecomte – published on WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review. For more information, see under this link
  • - August 2022 : "Administrative revocation and invalidity proceedings to be implemented before the Spanish Patent and Trademarks Office” – published on WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review. For more information, see under this link

Interventions

  • - September 23, 2022 : Presentation of the main principles of the EU trade mark and the registered Community design with Zheng Duan – Conference offered by Darwin Intellectual Property Co. to Taiwanese business leaders

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  • - May 22, 2019: "The abolishment of the graphical representation: non traditional- marks" – INTA Annual Meeting in Boston
  • - May 20, 2019: TM5 present developments and research on bad faith trademark filings – INTA Annual Meeting in Boston
  • - June 16, 2018: "Brexit: consequences for IP rights" – ECTA Annual Conference in Athens
  • - November 7, 2017: "New relative grounds, not really new. New absolute grounds" – IP international forum, EUIPO
  • - September 23, 2016: "La reforma del sistema europeo de marcas: evolucion no revolucion" – Specialist Seminar on Industrial and Intellectual Property Law in Santiago de Compostela
  • - October 15, 2015: "Speak your mind. Public speaking gets personal" – INTA Trademark Administrators and Practitioners (TMAP) Meeting in Alicante
  • - June 16, 2013: "Evidence of use of European Union trademarks in the European Union" – Chinese trademark festival, Chinese trademark Attorneys Association Annual Meeting in Dalian (China)

Languages

Spanish (native), French, English

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