Ana Castedo

Ana Castedo, a Hogan Lovells partner in the Intellectual Property, Media and Technology Practice Group in the Madrid office, represents international and Spanish companies before the Spanish commercial courts. Her areas of focus include contentious aspects of intellectual property, in particular, in copyright, patent, trademark, and unfair competition litigation. Chambers Global 2015 reports that clients value Ana for her "quick response, deep knowledge and involvement in the matters we entrust to her." Ana and her team work primarily with clients in the pharmaceutical and chemical fields.

They also handle a number of interesting cases involving telecommunications and technology patents, typically working hand-in-hand with experts from reputed national and foreign universities, and with foreign and national European patent lawyers. Most of the cases Ana works on are litigated before the Barcelona and the Madrid Commercial Courts – where the majority of claims involving infringement and invalidity of IP rights care brought.

Ana also has relevant experience litigating community trademarks before the Community Trademark Court, based in Alicante, Spain, and has recently represented one of the biggest players in the technology industry against an infringement claim.In the copyright arena, Ana and her team have been representing IT clients against collecting societies in litigation involving payment of copyright levies. Other relevant experience in the field of copyright includes seeking protection for design under the copyright laws and, in general, defending and protecting clients with regard to infringement attacks.