Public Information on the Proposal of Regulated Maximum Resolution Deadlines in Spanish Patent Act
In compliance with the provisions of article 59.3 of Spanish Act 2/2011 of 4 March, on Sustainable Economy and the second additional provision of Spanish Act 24/2015, of 24 July, on Patents (hereinafter, the Patent Act), the proposal of regulated maximum resolution deadlines for procedures governed by the Patent Act is formulated.
More adequate, efficient and effective deadlines
The setting of the maximum deadlines and making them public for all those interested provides the necessary legal certainty to the system. In turn, this measure is integrated in the 2010-2020 Strategy for a Sustainable Economy, whose primary objective is the promotion of Industrial Property in our country through, inter alia, the establishment of adequate, efficient and more effective deadlines in the procedures for granting and registering the various forms of Industrial Property.
SPTO seeks not to exhaust the maximum resolution deadlines to the benefit of all
The maximum deadlines proposed by the Spanish Patent and Trade Mark Office are adapted to the peculiarities of the procedures regulated in the Patent Law and are guided by the principle of efficiency. In practice, under the spirit of permanent improvement of the quality of services, this Body seeks not to exhaust the maximum resolution deadlines to the benefit of all of the system's operators.
The maximum resolution deadlines proposal constitutes a complementary part to the Patent Act and to its Execution Regulation.
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