Francisco Javier Márquez Martín

Partner of the firm SOL MUNTAÑOLA ABOGADOS (www.solmuntanola.com), and partner of RECUPERADEUDAS (www.recuperadeudas.com), a company that handles payment claims for unpaid invoices through digital technology.

He has been working in the field of Intellectual property since 1990, first working within a police group specialized in these matters, where he became acquainted with the operational ways of both organized piracy networks and individual pirates over the years and in a great variety of sectors. After several years acting as a substitute Abogado del Estado (attorney General), he joined SOL MUNTAÑOLA ABOGADOS in 1996, where he is currently the head of the litigation department, having defended numerous clients in all the areas that belong to our speciality (author rights, trademarks, designs, patents, unfair competition, image rights…) with great success. In 2010 he was selected by the English editorial Chambers and Partners as one of the 55 Spanish lawyers – in all areas – with the greatest outreach.

He currently combines his professional activity with teaching, he has been a teacher in the Master’s Program on Intellectual Property held at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE (www.comillas.edu) for the last years, and he has also been teaching as a professor in the IT&IP Master’s Program held at ESADE (Universidad Ramon Llull de Barcelona, www.esade.edu).