Subsidies to promote applications for patents and utility models

As part of its strategy for promoting Industrial Property among Spanish companies, encouraging them to use it as a tool to gain access to international markets, the Spanish Patents and Trademark Office has announced in the Official State Bulletin dated 4 June that subsidies are to be made available to promote applications for patents and utility models in Spain and in other countries.

The two main objectives of this aid are:

• To promote international protection of technology by means of patents and utility models.
• To promote the protection of national inventions by means of patents or utility models among SMEs and individuals.

The aid comprises:

• Subsidies for extending an application for a patent or utility model to national offices in other countries or to regional patent offices.
• Subsidies for activities falling within the international PCT procedure.
• Subsidies for applications for Spanish patents and utility models.

Applications must be filled in and submitted by computer via the OEPM website, from 5 June to 4 July 2013.

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