Course on Administrative Management of Industrial Property (Paralegals)

The School of Industrial Organisation and the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office have organised the second edition of the Course on Administrative Management of Industrial Property (Paralegals), to be held in Madrid from April to September 2012. Registration is open.

Creation of the Latin-American Action Programme

The Programme promotes cooperation amongst the Latin-American States for the sharing of good practices in the use of patent and trademark systems and of technological information for the creation of regional data bases.

Applications for national patents, trademarks and designs in 2011

Applications for national patents, that is, those submitted to the OEPM, dropped slightly in number last year. In 2011, 3,527 applications were submitted in comparison with 3,669 in 2010, a reduction of 4%.

European Observatory for Violations of Intellectual Property Rights

The main function of the Observatory will be to collect, analyse and disseminate relevant, objective, reliable data on the value of Industrial and Intellectual Property rights and on violation of them.

New tool for translating patents

This new tool includes Spanish as one of the language for two-way translation of patents documents.