If you want to distinguish your goods, services or both from those of another company, you may need a trademark or trade name. Find out what they are, what their registration procedure is and what it involves.
Information on the deadlines for filing applications for transformation of European Union trademarks into Spanish national trademarks. See more
If you have a new device, product or procedure that solves a technical problem or has a practical advantage, there are different ways to protect it in Spain and other countries. Find out how.
Does your innovation lie in the aesthetics, ornamentation or appearance of your product? Protect it through industrial design. Find out what rights registration confers and how to proceed.
Geographical indications protect the name of a product that has a specific geographical origin and owes its qualities, characteristics or reputation to its particular origin. Find out what they are, how the registration process works and what benefits they provide.
Patents published worldwide are a valuable source of scientific, technical and commercial information.
El Bono 3 del Fondo para PYMEs 2025, que cubre la elaboración de Informes Tecnológicos de Patentes (ITP) y Búsquedas Retrospectivas se cerrará el lunes 10 de febrero de 2025 al cierre de la jornada laboral. Próximamente se informará sobre su reapertura. Puede consultar más información aquí.
If you are an entrepreneur or a company and you want to boost and improve the profitability of your business by adequately protecting the intangible assets of your organisation, in this space you will find what you need.
Respondemos todas aquellas dudas referentes a los diferentes procesos implicados en la propiedad industrial.
Mediante el Sistema de Madrid, podrá obtener protección en los estados u organizaciones que son parte del mismo presentando una única solicitud, redactada en un único idioma y pagando una única tasa. De esta forma, no tendrá que presentar solicitudes independientes por cada uno de los territorios en que esté interesado en proteger su marca.
To request the renewal of a registered trademark you need to apply using the relevant forms found on our web page and pay the renewal fee, details of which can be found in FEES. All this needs to be done in the six months prior to the end of the period for which the registered mark was granted and the following six months. In the latter case a surcharge of 25% or 50% of the fee is payable.
The procedure can also be carried out electronically and in this case there is a 15% discount on the fee. All the information on procedures and technical requirements can be found on our web page in the tab trademarks and trade names.
In Spain, rights to a trademark are acquired by means of registration. The use of the R (registered), MR (registered trademark) or TM (trademark) symbols is not mandatory and does not provide greater legal protection. However, the use of these symbols may serve to advise that a certain sign is a trademark and thereby dissuade possible offenders and counterfeiters.
The R and MR symbols are used once the trademark has been registered, whereas TM denotes that a certain sign is a trademark.
In Spain, when indicating that a sign is a trademark, it is better to use R for registered or MR for registered trademark (generally not commonly used).
The "copyright" symbol is something completely different to the R for registered. Intellectual property rights and the consequent copyrights generated are not acquired by means of registration, but by means of the creation and public dissemination of the intellectual property in question. The competent body for such cases is the Intellectual Property Registry and the copyright symbol advises of the protection granted to the intellectual creation.
It is important to note that a distinctive sign is unique and should not be translated. For example, El Corte Inglés or Eroski should always stay as they are.
Applications for trademarks refer to the trademark in the exact manner in which it will be used. Therefore, the decision to apply for a trademark in one or more languages must be taken by the applicant, while considering that each name will constitute a separate trademark in its own right.
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