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.
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.
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.
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.
According to the Patent Act, it is obligatory to initially file applications in Spain for inventions created in Spain.
This caution should be taken into account in light of the system of confidentiality to which all filed applications are subjected for the first two months after they are filed and which enables a decision to be reached on whether the object of the application affects national defence interests.
The difference between both systems consists of patents always offering better security: any person who uses this invention without being authorised can be sued, irrespective of whether or not they were aware of the existence of this patent.In contrast, the industrial secret offers a weaker protection restricted to demanding financial compensation from any person who is obliged to respect that secret (basically employees) and who discloses or uses it in for their own benefit or for the benefit of third parties.In other words, the industrial secret only protects against espionage.
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