CMS

IP & Digital Business

Partner

María González heads up the Intellectual Property, Industrial Property and Digital Business department at CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo. She specialises in advising domestic and international companies on intellectual property, industrial property, copyright and technology, particularly in litigation and dispute resolution.

Moreover, she is well versed in the drafting, negotiation and termination of a wide range of IP/IT agreements (licences, trademarks, designs, software, outsourcing, distribution agreements, transfers, assignments, etc.), with particular expertise in advising on technology, digital transformation and data analytics in sectors such as insurtech, fintech, energy, health and wellbeing and real estate, among others.

She is an authorised representative before the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

Spanish, English, French

Member of the executive board of the Spanish Group and member of the International Group of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial and Intellectual Property (AIPPI).  Member of the International Trademark Association (INTA). INTA Representative before the European Union Intellectual Property Office Observatory. Member of the Anticounterfeiting Committee and Distinguished Member of the INTA Anticounterfeiting Policy Joint Task Force. Member of ITechLaw. Member of the Spanish Association of Entertainment Law (DENAE). Member of the Spanish Association for the Study and Teaching of Copyright (ASEDA).

2011 - Women and Leadership Executive Program, Aliter International Business School, Madrid (Spain). 2008 - Advanced course on Privacy and Data Protection, Instituto de Empresa [Business School], Madrid (Spain). 2007 - Advanced course on Telecommunications, Television and the Internet, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid (Spain). 2006 - Advanced course on IP/IT-related contracts, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid (Spain). 2004 - Advanced course on Intellectual and Industrial Property, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid (Spain). 2004 - Advanced course on Rhetorical Argument and Negotiation, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). 2002 - Advanced course on Intellectual Property and Copyright, Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICADE, Madrid (Spain). 2001 - Graduate of Law with a specialisation in Corporate Law, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICADE, Madrid (Spain).