Digital IP Section

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Digital IP Section

Legal solutions for the music and artistic sectors, performing arts, publishing, visual arts, advertising, inventions, information technologies, creative activities, and engineering in general, as well as in the field of privacy and digital rights.

Digital IP Section
Intellectual Property
Privacy
Digital & ICT Law
Patricia Vila Salord
Who is she
Digital IP Section

Light fish. Pez luz
A digital burst.
In uncharted space.

Just as the light fish illuminates the depth, digital ideas sparkle in the vast cyberspace, guiding curious minds toward new horizons, challenging the known, and discovering the unexplored.

This Section addresses the legal challenges arising in the digital world, offering tailored solutions to the evolving needs of businesses and organizations, in a cross-cutting, global, and specialized manner.

Aware of the dynamic nature of the digital realm, we constantly update our legal and technological knowledge to assist public and private entities in using and providing services on the Internet, in the cloud, in the field of artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, and electronic contracting, among others.

Intellectual Property
  • Contracts for the commissioning and development of intellectual works and related works of any kind (literary, artistic, scientific, plastic, audiovisual, video art, multimedia, software and computer applications, databases, technologies and procedures, among others).
  • Agreements relating the assignment of IP rights.
  • Licenses of use of all kinds.
  • Off-line and on-line edition contracts for literary, scientific and musical works.
  • Production and co-production contracts for works in collaboration of all kinds (audiovisuals, video games, multimedia, visual art and public peformances, among others).
  • Software contracts and licenses.
  • Assignment contracts and licenses of use of trademarks, designs, patents and utility models (Industrial Property).
  • Clauses and conditions for the protection of intellectual and industrial property of digital platforms, applications and web pages.
  • Representation of the client and negotiation between rights holders and assignees / licensees / users
  • Representation of the client and negotiation with collective management entities.
  • Blockchain technology applied to IP and smart contracts.
  • Establishment and observance of IP agreements, licenses or exclusive distribution networks through smart contracts.
  • Advice on the electronic management of intellectual property rights.
  • Procedures for generating evidence, registering and managing digital rights (DMR).
  • Study and promotion of normative change initiatives at the autonomous, state and European level.
Privacy
  • General advice on Personal Data Protection Compliance audits of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) and LOPDGDD (Spanish Data Protection and Digital Rights Guarantee Act).
  • Clauses and forms for data protection Analysis and risk management in the processing of personal data.
  • Advice and supervision of the Impact Assessment on Personal Data Protection.
  • Advice on security breaches and privacy violations.
  • Data Protection Officer (DPO) services.
  • Legal advice on the implementation of security measures.
  • Representation before the Spanish or regional Data Protection Agency.
  • Privacy and confidentiality contracts and clauses.
  • Data processor contracts.
  • Claims for privacy violations.
  • Assistance in the exercise of rights of access, modification, opposition, suppression and portability of personal data.
  • Personnel training in data protection.
  • Cookies.
  • Video surveillance.
  • Telecommunications in the digital single market.
  • Support and legal advice on Big Data projects.
Digital & ICT Law
  • Legal issues of eCommerce, B2B and B2C.
  • Adaptation of digital business to the Law of Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, both European and Spanish regulations.
  • General Conditions and Legal Notice of web pages, platforms and digital applications.
  • Legal advice on M2M communications.
  • Legal advice on the application of Blockchain and DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) technologies to any sector (social, real estate, IP, urban, public administration, among others).
  • Configuration and development of Smart Contracts
  • Legal advice on the use and commercial exploitation of artificial intelligence, augmented reality and 3D technology, among others.
  • Intellectual Property of digital contents and formats.
  • Adaptation of eCommerce activity to personal data protection regulations.
Patricia Vila Salord
Who is she
Professional experience and specialization

Since 2005: Founder and Director of “Lexpert Abogados”.

Intellectual property, Commercial law, Digital law, Regulation of Public Performances, Data Protection.

2002-2004: Universal Forum of Cultures-Barcelona 2004. Specialized legal advice on Intellectual Property and Public Shows.

1997-2001: Lawyer and Head of the IP/IT Area at “Mariscal, Monereo, Meyer & Marinel-lo”.

1996: Lawyer at the Time Warner record company, “east west records GmbH”, Hamburg, Germany.

1994-1996: Lawyer at the international law firm “Droste”, currently “Hogan Lovells”, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Teaching
  • Master’s Degree in Online Communication at UIC. LEGAL Module. (2010-11 academic year)
  • Optimization of Copyrights in the Digital Age (Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya – Barcelona, July 2010)
  • Legal Aspects of the Internet (Cibernàrium – Barcelona Activa, 2006-2007)
Publications
  • Towards a European Law of Intellectual Property in the Information Society” (VLEX)
  • The Challenge of E-commerce” (Bo Media, 2005)
  • Handbuch zum Internetrecht.” (author of chapters on Spanish IP law, domain names, and data protection, Springer Verlag, 2002)
  • Intellectual Property of Software Developed for the Company” (Internet & Business, March and April 2001, Nos. 41 and 42)
  • Data protection under Spanish Law” (International Internet Law Review, 2000)
Conferences | Debates
  • “¿La tecnología al servicio del autor?” (Mercado de Música de Vic, septiembre 2014)
  • “Viabilidad de los espacios de música en vivo en el medio urbano: soluciones para un desarrollo sostenible” (Mercado de Música de Vic, septiembre 2009)
  • “Cómo las nuevas tecnologías conducen a la reflexión y revisión de la propiedad intelectual”
  • “La protección de datos personales en la actividad empresarial española”
  • “La protección jurídica de la oferta comercial en Internet”
  • “Fira de Barcelona Tecnologías de la Información , BiT”
  • “Aspectos jurídicos del Comercio Electrónico B2C”
Outstanding Postgraduate and Specialization Courses
  • Data Protection Officer Course (INEAF, 2023)
  • Certified Legal Advisor in Blockchain, DLT and Cryptoeconomics (EADA, 2018)
  • Internet, Business Organization and Labor Relations (ESADE, 2001)
  • Intellectual Property and New Technologies (Pompeu Fabra, 2000)
  • Intellectual Property, Distance Education and New Technologies (UOC,2000)