Manuel Lobato

IP Group
Bird & Bird

I am a Of Counsel in Bird & Bird's Intellectual Property department in the Madrid office. My fields of specialization are Intellectual Property, technology transfer contracts and Pharmaceutical Law. I have acted in several multi-jurisdictional pharmaceutical patent and Supplementary Protection Certificate cases in Spain.

Recognized in Chambers as Band 1 Intellectual Property: Patents and Trade Marks and Band 2 Life Sciences: Patent Litigation.

 My activity has also an academic profile. I have taught Commercial Law and Intellectual property for 30 years (at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad Pública de Navarra) and I am author of several monographs, like Commentary to the Trade Mark Act (Civitas, 2nd edition 2007) and edition of The pharmaceutical patent (IDEI 1997).