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.
Information on the deadlines for filing applications for transformation of European Union trademarks into Spanish national trademarks. See more
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.
Patents published worldwide are a valuable source of scientific, technical and commercial information.
El Bono 3 del Fondo para PYMEs 2025, que cubre la elaboración de Informes Tecnológicos de Patentes (ITP) y Búsquedas Retrospectivas se cerrará el lunes 10 de febrero de 2025 al cierre de la jornada laboral. Próximamente se informará sobre su reapertura. Puede consultar más información aquí.
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.
To ensure that national patents, utility models and European patents validated in Spainremain in force in the country, it is necessary to pay the annuities within the legally established period.
In order to ensure that supplementary protection certificates (SPC) and any extensions remain in force in Spain, it is necessary to pay the maintenance fees within the legally established period.
If the applicant fails to pay the annual fees for national patents, utility models and European patents validated in Spain or the maintenance fees for the SPCs and extensions, the SPTO declares the expiry of the protection right due to non-payment of the corresponding annual fee or maintenance fee and publishes the expiry resolution in the Official Industrial Property Gazette (BOPI). Consequently, the invention enters the public domain and can be freely used by anyone.
For international PCT applications and topographies of semiconductor products, no annuity or maintenance fees are payable.