Mario A. Sol Muntañola

Owner and managing partner of the law firm SOL MUNTAÑOLA ABOGADOS (www.solmuntanola.com), partner of the Official Patent and Trademark Agency INGENIAS (www.ingenias.es) and partner of RECUPERADEUDAS (www.recuperadeudas.com), a recovery of defaults through information technology.

Dedicated exclusively, since 1990, to intellectual property and related matters. He has written his doctoral thesis on Parody as a limit to copyright and has written two books and numerous articles on intellectual property.

He combines his professional activity with research and teaching in the area of intellectual property. He has been an associate professor at the University of Barcelona (https://www.ub.es), and at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (https://www.uoc.edu ) and since 1998 he has been teaching at the Faculty of Law from ESADE (Ramón Llull University of Barcelona, www.esade.edu), currently as Director of the IT+IP Master. His experience in this field has led him to specialized arbitration, and since 1999 he is a member of the group of experts of the mediation and arbitration center of the World Intellectual Property Organization (www.wipo.int) and arbitrator of the National Arbitration Forum (USA) (www.arbitration-forum.com), and from ARBITEC (Spain). He is a member of the Board of Directors of ALADDA (Spanish branch of ALAI), a member of the Spanish group of AIPPI, a member of the IBA, a member and former vice-president of the Copyright Commission of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB).