- Born in Madrid 1937

- Studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Madrid (1954-1959)

- Studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Munich (1960-61)

- Doctor. Law Faculty of the University of Madrid (1966)

- Commercial Law Professor (1970-78 University of Salamanca; 1978- State University for Distance Learning).

- Permanent Member of the General Codification Commission (Ministry of Justice) (1970-).

- Former President of the International Association for the Promotion, Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) (1989-1991).

- Former President of the Spanish Branches of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI) (1992-1996) and of the International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI) (1991-1995). Member of Honour of the Spanish Groups of AIPPI and ALAI.

- Former President of the Spanish Association for competition Law (Spanish Group of the League of Competition Law) (2001-2005).

- Former President of the Committee for Mediation and Arbitration in Copyright in the Ministry of Education and Culture (1995-1998).

- President of the National Committee for Consumer Arbitration, in the Ministry of Health and Consumption (1997-).

- Expert of the World International Property Organization (WIPO), of the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), of the Conference of Rectors of European Universities (CRE), and of the Committee of the Cartagena Agreement (Pacto Andino).

- Doctor Honoris Causa of the "Jean Moulin" University of Lyon III (France), Zaragoza University (Spain) and Buenos Aires University (Argentina).

- Coordinator of the WIPO Academy for Latin America, held in Geneva the years 1993 and 1994.

- Panelist of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for domain names.

- Author of the Preliminary Draft that gave rise to the Spanish Patents Act. President of the Committees wording the preliminary drafts of the Spanish Acts on sales outside commercial establishments and on credit to consumers. Member of the Committees that worded the preliminary Drafts of the Spanish Acts on Bill of Exchange and Check; of implementation of the Community Directives in the field of Company Law to the Spanish legislation, and of Economic Interest Groupings. Author of the Preliminary Draft of the R.D. 1885/1978 and co-author of the Preliminary Draft of the Act 1/1994, both on Reciprocal Guarantee Companies.

- During the 1st semester of 1989 chairman of the EEC Council Committee for the study of the project of Directive for the Protection of Biotechnological Inventions.

- Member of the "Commission on European Contract Law" (until 1992).

- General reporter on the subject "merger control" at the XIV Congress of the International Federation of European Law, held in Madrid in 1990.

- General reporter on the subject “Ownership of rights on cinematographical works” “at the Congress of the International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI) held in Paris in 1995, for the centennial of the invention of cinematograph.

- Member of the Special Committee within the General Codification Commission who prepared the “Draft Company Law Code” (1994-2002).

- Member of the Special Commission appointed by the Spanish Government to foster Transparency and Security in the Markets and in Listed Companies (2002-2003).

- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (appointed March 2004).

- Member appointed by the Ministry of Justice (august 2004), of the Advisory Committee for Accounting of the “Institute for accounting and auditing “integrated in the Ministry of Economy.

- Member of the Editing Board of the following revues: Revista de Derecho Mercantil (Commercial Law Revue), Estudios sobre consumo (Consumer studies), Revista de las Instituciones Europeas (Revue of the European Institutions) Cuadernos de Derecho y Comercio (Note books on Law and Commerce); Actas de Derecho Industrial (Minutes on Intellectual Property Law) and Gaceta Jurídica de la Unión Europea y de la Competencia (Law Gazette of the European Union and Competition).

- Author of numerous publications in the fields of Commercial Law, Industrial Property, Intellectual Property and Competition Law.

- Practising attorney.