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.
Respondemos todas aquellas dudas referentes a los diferentes procesos implicados en la propiedad industrial.
The patent holder can write to the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) indicating that they are willing to authorise the invention to be used by anyone as a licensee.
These licences are called full licences and enable the holder to pay reduced annual fees, which are cut by half after this declaration has been received by the SPTO.
Anyone can use the invention legitimately as non-exclusive licence holder, so several full licences may exist for the same patent.
If the applicable annual fees are not paid, the patent expires.
It is difficult to give exact figures but between approximately 2% and 5% of patents applied for are exploited.
According to information from the last “International Exhibition of Technology and Product Inventions” held annually in Geneva, approximately 1,000 inventions were presented in 2015 by 752 exhibitors from 48 countries. At the 43rd edition of this exhibition held in 2015, contracts for transfers and licences were signed for more than 50 million euros, an average of more than 50,000 euros per invention.
El titular de la patente está obligado a explotarla, bien por si mismo o a través de una persona autorizada por él, mediante su ejecución en España o en el territorio de un miembro de la Organización Mundial del Comercio.
La explotación deberá realizarse dentro del plazo de cuatro años desde la fecha de presentación de la solicitud de patente, o de tres años desde la fecha en que se publique la concesión de ésta en el "Boletín Oficial de la Propiedad Industrial", con aplicación automática del plazo que expire más tarde.
En el caso de que la patente no sea explotada podrá caducar.
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