WHAT SERVICES
DO WE OFFER?
LEARN ABOUT
THE SPANISH
PATENT AND
TRADEMARK
OFFICE’S
HISTORICAL
ARCHIVAL FONDS
Different resources are available free of charge on the website
http://historico.oepm.es/:
- Databases which offer bibliographic data for the
files:
• Invention privileges 1826-1878
• Patents 1878-1940 (data from the files)
• Patents 1930-1966 (data from the Industrial Property
Official Bulletin, BOPI)*
• Trademarks 1865-1913
- Virtual Museum:
• Subject galleries: biographical and about railway history
• Exhibition rooms.
- Other resources:
• Digitalised Industrial Property Official Bulletin history:
1886-1965
• Patent and trademark requesters search through
geo-positioning systems*
*Spanish Official Industrial Property Gazette
Information and access:
Enquiries by post or by email Advice and guidance regarding
the archives and databases.
Search room consultation:
Consultations of original documents subject to appointment.
Access and document consultation are free of charge.
Document reproduction:
In digital or paper format from digital format, upon payment of
the corresponding public fees, as established in the Order
IET/1186/2015, of 16 June. Permission is required for the
publication or communication of document reproductions of
the archives..
Archive shop:
To promote knowledge of these valuable historical archival
fonds, items with prints of trademarks and privileges from the
archives are available to purchase at the SPTO. The prices are
established in the Order IET/1186/2015.
Sale of prints:
Reproductions of digitalised trademarks and privileges in pa-
per format are accessible to the general public.
DIRECTORY
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
Pº Castellana, 75
28071 Madrid
www.oepm.es
Archive: http://historico.oepm.es/
Opening hours: From 09:30 to 14:00
Telephone: 91 349 30 28
Email address: historico@oepm.es
SPTO shop: tienda@oepm.es
Legal deposit: M-36545-2018
NIPO: 088-18-061-1 (Paper)
NIPO: 088-18-062-7 (Online)
HOW TO FIND
OUT MORE
Revised November 2018
23378_FondoHistorico_ENGLISH.indd 1 11/12/18 12:19
A BRIEF HISTORY
WHAT WILL YOU
FIND IN THE SPTO
ARCHIVES?
The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) is an auton-
omous body attached to the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and
the Digital Agenda which is responsible for the State’s admin-
istration regarding industrial property.
As a result of this activity, an archive has been created with the
aim of collecting, preserving and disseminating all the docu-
ments produced by the SPTO and the institutions which act-
ed as its predecessors as of the adoption of the first Spanish
law on patents: the Royal Decree of 27 March 1826 on indus-
try privileges. Two main fonds make up the SPTO archive:
• The historical fonds: contain documents dated between
1826 and 1939
• The administrative fonds: contain the documents dated be-
tween 1940 and the present day
Since 1999, the SPTO collaborates actively with the Universi-
dad Autónoma de Madrid to collect bibliographic data and
study the historical archival fonds of the Patent and Trade-
mark Office.
The SPTO is the result of a long institutional change whose
origins could be considered to be the Royal General Board of
Trade, created in 1679, responsible for examining inventions
and proposing to the King the granting of letters patent.
The Board was succeeded by the following entities and insti-
tutions:
• The Royal Cabinet of Machines of the Buen Retiro (1792-
1824),
• Royal Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (1824-1850),
• Royal Institute of Industry (1850-1887), which later became
the Royal Conservatory of Arts and Crafts integrated into the
new institution,
• The Special Directorate for Patents, Trademarks and Indus-
try of the Ministry of Development (1887-1888),
• Department of Patents and Trademarks belonging to the
Ministry of Development (1888-1902),
• The Industrial Property Register (1902-1975), integrated into
the different ministries responsible for this area,
• The Industrial Property Register (1975-1992), an autono-
mous body,
• The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office from 1992 to the
present.
At the same time as this evolution, developments in legisla-
tions and the appearance of new modalities of industrial prop-
erty also came about.
A total of 430,895 files together with their corresponding
record books make up the historical fonds.
The documents are classified as administrative files,
specifications, maps, record books (entry, registration
and payment), and albums.
They also include objects and three-dimensional de-
signs, and material and metal as well as chemical prod-
uct samples.
The fonds are classified according to the following
scheme:
1. Inventions
• Royal Privileges (1826-1878)
• Patents (1878-1939)
• Utility Models (1929-1939)
2. Industrial Design
• Industrial models and designs (1902-1929)
• Industrial and artistic models (1929-1939)
• Industrial and artistic designs (1929-1939)
3. Distinctive signs
• National trademarks
(1866-1939)
• International trademarks
(1893-1939)
• Trade names (1902-1939)
• Business signs (1929-1939)
• Cinema signs (1929-1989
23378_FondoHistorico_ENGLISH.indd 2 11/12/18 12:19
A BRIEF HISTORY
WHAT WILL YOU
FIND IN THE SPTO
ARCHIVES?
The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) is an auton-
omous body attached to the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and
the Digital Agenda which is responsible for the State’s admin-
istration regarding industrial property.
As a result of this activity, an archive has been created with the
aim of collecting, preserving and disseminating all the docu-
ments produced by the SPTO and the institutions which act-
ed as its predecessors as of the adoption of the first Spanish
law on patents: the Royal Decree of 27 March 1826 on indus-
try privileges. Two main fonds make up the SPTO archive:
• The historical fonds: contain documents dated between
1826 and 1939
• The administrative fonds: contain the documents dated be-
tween 1940 and the present day
Since 1999, the SPTO collaborates actively with the Universi-
dad Autónoma de Madrid to collect bibliographic data and
study the historical archival fonds of the Patent and Trade-
mark Office.
The SPTO is the result of a long institutional change whose
origins could be considered to be the Royal General Board of
Trade, created in 1679, responsible for examining inventions
and proposing to the King the granting of letters patent.
The Board was succeeded by the following entities and insti-
tutions:
• The Royal Cabinet of Machines of the Buen Retiro (1792-
1824),
• Royal Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (1824-1850),
• Royal Institute of Industry (1850-1887), which later became
the Royal Conservatory of Arts and Crafts integrated into the
new institution,
• The Special Directorate for Patents, Trademarks and Indus-
try of the Ministry of Development (1887-1888),
• Department of Patents and Trademarks belonging to the
Ministry of Development (1888-1902),
• The Industrial Property Register (1902-1975), integrated into
the different ministries responsible for this area,
• The Industrial Property Register (1975-1992), an autono-
mous body,
• The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office from 1992 to the
present.
At the same time as this evolution, developments in legisla-
tions and the appearance of new modalities of industrial prop-
erty also came about.
A total of 430,895 files together with their corresponding
record books make up the historical fonds.
The documents are classified as administrative files,
specifications, maps, record books (entry, registration
and payment), and albums.
They also include objects and three-dimensional de-
signs, and material and metal as well as chemical prod-
uct samples.
The fonds are classified according to the following
scheme:
1. Inventions
• Royal Privileges (1826-1878)
• Patents (1878-1939)
• Utility Models (1929-1939)
2. Industrial Design
• Industrial models and designs (1902-1929)
• Industrial and artistic models (1929-1939)
• Industrial and artistic designs (1929-1939)
3. Distinctive signs
• National trademarks
(1866-1939)
• International trademarks
(1893-1939)
• Trade names (1902-1939)
• Business signs (1929-1939)
• Cinema signs (1929-1989
23378_FondoHistorico_ENGLISH.indd 2 11/12/18 12:19
A BRIEF HISTORY
WHAT WILL YOU
FIND IN THE SPTO
ARCHIVES?
The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) is an auton-
omous body attached to the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and
the Digital Agenda which is responsible for the State’s admin-
istration regarding industrial property.
As a result of this activity, an archive has been created with the
aim of collecting, preserving and disseminating all the docu-
ments produced by the SPTO and the institutions which act-
ed as its predecessors as of the adoption of the first Spanish
law on patents: the Royal Decree of 27 March 1826 on indus-
try privileges. Two main fonds make up the SPTO archive:
• The historical fonds: contain documents dated between
1826 and 1939
• The administrative fonds: contain the documents dated be-
tween 1940 and the present day
Since 1999, the SPTO collaborates actively with the Universi-
dad Autónoma de Madrid to collect bibliographic data and
study the historical archival fonds of the Patent and Trade-
mark Office.
The SPTO is the result of a long institutional change whose
origins could be considered to be the Royal General Board of
Trade, created in 1679, responsible for examining inventions
and proposing to the King the granting of letters patent.
The Board was succeeded by the following entities and insti-
tutions:
• The Royal Cabinet of Machines of the Buen Retiro (1792-
1824),
• Royal Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (1824-1850),
• Royal Institute of Industry (1850-1887), which later became
the Royal Conservatory of Arts and Crafts integrated into the
new institution,
• The Special Directorate for Patents, Trademarks and Indus-
try of the Ministry of Development (1887-1888),
• Department of Patents and Trademarks belonging to the
Ministry of Development (1888-1902),
• The Industrial Property Register (1902-1975), integrated into
the different ministries responsible for this area,
• The Industrial Property Register (1975-1992), an autono-
mous body,
• The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office from 1992 to the
present.
At the same time as this evolution, developments in legisla-
tions and the appearance of new modalities of industrial prop-
erty also came about.
A total of 430,895 files together with their corresponding
record books make up the historical fonds.
The documents are classified as administrative files,
specifications, maps, record books (entry, registration
and payment), and albums.
They also include objects and three-dimensional de-
signs, and material and metal as well as chemical prod-
uct samples.
The fonds are classified according to the following
scheme:
1. Inventions
• Royal Privileges (1826-1878)
• Patents (1878-1939)
• Utility Models (1929-1939)
2. Industrial Design
• Industrial models and designs (1902-1929)
• Industrial and artistic models (1929-1939)
• Industrial and artistic designs (1929-1939)
3. Distinctive signs
• National trademarks
(1866-1939)
• International trademarks
(1893-1939)
• Trade names (1902-1939)
• Business signs (1929-1939)
• Cinema signs (1929-1989
23378_FondoHistorico_ENGLISH.indd 2 11/12/18 12:19
WHAT SERVICES
DO WE OFFER?
LEARN ABOUT
THE SPANISH
PATENT AND
TRADEMARK
OFFICE’S
HISTORICAL
ARCHIVAL FONDS
Different resources are available free of charge on the website
http://historico.oepm.es/:
- Databases which offer bibliographic data for the
files:
• Invention privileges 1826-1878
• Patents 1878-1940 (data from the files)
• Patents 1930-1966 (data from the Industrial Property
Official Bulletin, BOPI)*
• Trademarks 1865-1913
- Virtual Museum:
• Subject galleries: biographical and about railway history
• Exhibition rooms.
- Other resources:
• Digitalised Industrial Property Official Bulletin history:
1886-1965
• Patent and trademark requesters search through
geo-positioning systems*
*Spanish Official Industrial Property Gazette
Information and access:
Enquiries by post or by email Advice and guidance regarding
the archives and databases.
Search room consultation:
Consultations of original documents subject to appointment.
Access and document consultation are free of charge.
Document reproduction:
In digital or paper format from digital format, upon payment of
the corresponding public fees, as established in the Order
IET/1186/2015, of 16 June. Permission is required for the
publication or communication of document reproductions of
the archives..
Archive shop:
To promote knowledge of these valuable historical archival
fonds, items with prints of trademarks and privileges from the
archives are available to purchase at the SPTO. The prices are
established in the Order IET/1186/2015.
Sale of prints:
Reproductions of digitalised trademarks and privileges in pa-
per format are accessible to the general public.
DIRECTORY
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
Pº Castellana, 75
28071 Madrid
www.oepm.es
Archive: http://historico.oepm.es/
Opening hours: From 09:30 to 14:00
Telephone: 91 349 30 28
Email address: historico@oepm.es
SPTO shop: tienda@oepm.es
Legal deposit: M-36545-2018
NIPO: 088-18-061-1 (Paper)
NIPO: 088-18-062-7 (Online)
HOW TO FIND
OUT MORE
Revised November 2018
23378_FondoHistorico_ENGLISH.indd 1 11/12/18 12:19
WHAT SERVICES
DO WE OFFER?
LEARN ABOUT
THE SPANISH
PATENT AND
TRADEMARK
OFFICE’S
HISTORICAL
ARCHIVAL FONDS
Different resources are available free of charge on the website
http://historico.oepm.es/:
- Databases which offer bibliographic data for the
files:
• Invention privileges 1826-1878
• Patents 1878-1940 (data from the files)
• Patents 1930-1966 (data from the Industrial Property
Official Bulletin, BOPI)*
• Trademarks 1865-1913
- Virtual Museum:
• Subject galleries: biographical and about railway history
• Exhibition rooms.
- Other resources:
• Digitalised Industrial Property Official Bulletin history:
1886-1965
• Patent and trademark requesters search through
geo-positioning systems*
*Spanish Official Industrial Property Gazette
Information and access:
Enquiries by post or by email Advice and guidance regarding
the archives and databases.
Search room consultation:
Consultations of original documents subject to appointment.
Access and document consultation are free of charge.
Document reproduction:
In digital or paper format from digital format, upon payment of
the corresponding public fees, as established in the Order
IET/1186/2015, of 16 June. Permission is required for the
publication or communication of document reproductions of
the archives..
Archive shop:
To promote knowledge of these valuable historical archival
fonds, items with prints of trademarks and privileges from the
archives are available to purchase at the SPTO. The prices are
established in the Order IET/1186/2015.
Sale of prints:
Reproductions of digitalised trademarks and privileges in pa-
per format are accessible to the general public.
DIRECTORY
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
Pº Castellana, 75
28071 Madrid
www.oepm.es
Archive: http://historico.oepm.es/
Opening hours: From 09:30 to 14:00
Telephone: 91 349 30 28
Email address: historico@oepm.es
SPTO shop: tienda@oepm.es
Legal deposit: M-36545-2018
NIPO: 088-18-061-1 (Paper)
NIPO: 088-18-062-7 (Online)
HOW TO FIND
OUT MORE
Revised November 2018
23378_FondoHistorico_ENGLISH.indd 1 11/12/18 12:19
