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If you have invented some kind of product or process that provides a new way of doing something or solves a technical problem in a novel way, you can protect it.

 

There are different options depending on the type of invention and your business strategy.

 

  • Apply for a national patent

    With it, you can protect your invention in Spain for 20 years from the filing date of the application.

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  • Applying for a utility model

    You will quickly protect your invention in Spain for 10 years from the date of filing the application.

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  • Applying for a supplementary protection certificate (SPC) and extension

    With it, you can extend the protection of a patent in Spain on a pharmaceutical or phytosanitary product for up to 5 years after the end of the 20-year patent term and if certain requirements are met.

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  • Applying for and validating a European patent

    A single application will allow you to protect your invention in all European states party to the Munich Convention on the Grant of European Patents, as well as in the validate it and extend protection.

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  • Filing an international PCT application

    A single application will allow you to start the procedure to protect your invention in all the countries that are part of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

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  • Registering a topography of a semiconductor product

    With it, you can protect an electronic integrated circuit in Spain for 10 years from the time the circuit is first marketed or the topography is registered.

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Supplementary information

 

Before submitting your application, please take into account the relevant recommendations and legal provisions.

 

If you are a legal person, an unincorporated entity, an industrial property agent or a representative of a legal person or unincorporated entity, you are obliged to submit the application and the rest of the formalities electronically.

 

If you are a natural person and you are not an industrial property agent or a representative of a legal person or unincorporated entity, you may choose to submit the application and the rest of the formalities electronically or submit them on paper.

 

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