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.
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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.
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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.
Industrial property is the exclusive right held by a natural or legal person over an invention, a distinctive sign or an industrial design.
In Spain, industrial property rights are:
- Industrial designs: these protect the external appearance of products
- Trademarks and trade names: these protect distinctive signs, whether graphic and/or word combinations , which help to distinguish goods or services from identical or similar ones belonging to competitors on the market.
- Patents and utility models: these protect inventions that may relate to a new process, a new device, a new product or an improvement or refinement thereof that can be reproduced and repeated for industrial purposes.
- Topographies of semiconductors: these protect the (diagram of) pathways of the different layers and elements making up an integrated circuit, their three-dimensional arrangement and their interconnections, that is, what constitutes its "topography".
Applicable legislation exists for each of these rights, the basic texts for which are as follows:
- Patents and models. Law 24/2015 of 24 July on Patents
- Distinctive signs Law 17/2001 of 7 December on Trademarks
- Industrial designs Law 20/2003 of 7 July on the Legal Protection of Industrial Design
- Topographies of semiconductor products Law 11/1988 of 3 May on the Legal Protection of the Topographies of Semiconductor Products
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