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Luis Fernández-Novoa Joins Howrey Martinez Lage
Friday, February 22, 2008
Three New Associates Bring Madrid Office Total to Fifteen
Madrid, Spain -- Howrey Martinez Lage LLP has announced that it will create an Intellectual Property practice in its Madrid office with the addition of Luis Fernández-Novoa and three IP associates, bringing the office total headcount to fifteen. Fernández-Novoa brings significant IP experience to Howrey Martinez Lage, which, to date, has focused solely on antitrust work.
"Luis is a fine addition to our Madrid office," said Santiago Martinez Lage, Managing Partner of Howrey’s Madrid office. "He brings our office an entire new dimension, which we will be able to utilize in the both the local Spanish IP market and in the interface between IP and our already-successful competition practice."
Fernández-Novoa’s practice focuses on all forms of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, passing off, and designs (registered and unregistered). He specializes in patent litigation for a variety of technologies - including pharmaceutics, electronics and mechanics.
Besides patents, Fernández-Novoa's contentious experience also trademarks, designs and copyright cases in the Mercantile Courts, Appeal Courts and Supreme Court, as well as arbitration before the CCI.
Fernández-Novoa also teaches IP courses, seminars and master degrees programs for several academic institutions.
According to the 2008 edition of PLC Which lawyer?, Fernández-Novoa is "an up-and coming player on the patent litigation scene with an increasing focus on the pharmaceutical sector."
Fernandez-Novoa received his Masters of Law from the University of Santiago de Compostela (1987), and Masters in Antitrust and Copyright studies at the University of Pennsylvania (1990).
Howrey Martinez Lage opened in January 2008. Martínez Lage was founded in 1985 by Santiago Martínez Lage, who is its Managing Partner. The leading international professional directories (Legal 500, Chambers and PLC) rank Martínez Lage in the top tier of Spanish Competition law firms and the latest edition of Chambers Global The World’s Leading Lawyers, published in 2006, defined it as "the best competition boutique by far". In 2001, Martínez Lage & Asociados was chosen by Commercial Lawyer as one of the top four firms in Europe in its specialist area.
Howrey is consistently ranked as one of the world’s top IP firms and now has IP expertise in every one of its offices in Europe. "Our IP practice in Europe is truly sans pareil as we continue to add Europe’s top IP practitioners to our roster,’ said Willem Hoyng, Howrey’s Managing Partner for Europe and, himself, considered Europe’s top IP litigator. In addition to Mr. Fernandez-Novoa and Professor Hoyng, Howrey IP in Europe now includes such top-rated lawyers as Drs. Joachim Feldges and Michale Knospe(Munich), Marina Cousté and Denis Monégier du Sobier (Paris), Carl De Meyer and Benoit Strowel (Brussels), Mark Hodgson and Jeremy Brown(London) and Bart Van Den Broek Amsterdam). "This is a formidable group," asserts Hoyng, "the depth of the experience at Howrey allows us to serve clients efficiently and successfully."
In addition to Mr. Fernandez-Novoa, Howrey has announced that three associates from the Madrid IP firm, Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, will also join the firm.
Founded in 1956, Howrey LLP is a global law firm with over 680 attorneys and more than 50 economic, financial, and regulatory consultants. Howrey has offices in Washington, D.C.; Northern Virginia; Houston, Texas; New York, New York; Los Angeles, Irvine, East Palo Alto and San Francisco, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; Chicago, Illinois; London, England; Brussels, Belgium; Paris, France; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Munich, Germany; Madrid, Spain (2008) and Taipei, Taiwan. Howrey's affiliate, The CapAnalysis Group, LLC (economic, financial, and litigation consultants) teams with Howrey attorneys as a strategic business resource. A consistent American Lawyer "A-List" and PLC "Which Lawyer?" Global 50 firm, Howrey is one of the most frequently used law firms by the world’s leading companies. Howrey’s Intellectual Property practice was ranked as a top national IP practice by IP Law & Business and its Antitrust Practice was named the world’s #1 Antitrust/Competition practice by Global Competition Review’s GCR 100. As the winner of the 2003 Thomas L. Sager Award from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Howrey is committed to the ideals of diversity and is equally committed to the tenets of pro bono and public service. Howrey's "Advantage of Focus" makes it the clear choice for antitrust, intellectual property and complex business dispute resolution. For more information, visit our website: http://www.howrey.com.
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