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.
No, as it would not meet the requirement for novelty needed for inventions to be eligible for patent protection.
According to the Patent Act, any invention not included in the state of the art is considered novel. The State of the Art consists of everything that, prior to the submission date of the patent application, was made publicly accessible in Spain or abroad by a written or oral description, by use or by any other means.
To register the name of another inventor on a patent application or a patent which has already been awarded, the current applicant/holder needs to file an application, preferably using form “3406X - Application for rectification”, and pay the corresponding fee. The application must be submitted along with a formal document, signed by each and every one of the inventors (both new and old), and also by the holder/s, in which they give their consent for their inclusion.
When an invention arises from the collaboration between research groups in various countries, its ownership will be shared by all the participating organisations in proportions agreed by the applicants.
Yes, the applicant can be a company, but the application must include the name/s of the inventor/s.
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