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.
On our web page www.oepm.es in the INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY section, under the Industrial Property Agents heading, you will find an agent search engine as well as information on the requirements for becoming a qualified industrial property agent and on the calls for applicants and the programmes of the examinations you need to pass.
The examinations for becoming an industrial property agent are not carried out at regular intervals.
When an application for Industrial Property rights is made, the applicant can be a physical or legal person or persons.
Keep in mind that acting on behalf of the legal persons, there are physical persons who, in accordance with the articles of incorporation or laws, are empowered to represent same. For example, the administrator, managing director, etc. If is this is the person with signature authority, it must be indicated in the application, in the corresponding section, that the applicant is not being represented. But if the application indicates the name of this person as the representative, a notarised copy of the public deed granting this authority must be provided.
If the application is submitted by a representative who is not the legal and natural representative of the company, a specific authorisation for this representation naming a physical person must be provided.
The option of whether or not to act through an industrial property agent is a personal choice of the applicant and never an obligation or mandatory requirement, except in the case of applicants who do not reside in the European Community.
The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office hereby responds to the enquiries it has been receiving from various trademark holders and applicants regarding a letter/payment request sent by various companies requesting payment for the inclusion of these trademarks in Protected Trademark Registers or Publications. Recipients of these letters appear to be under the erroneous impression that this letter is in some way connected with the SPTO and corresponds to a fee for registration, renewal or publication for maintenance of their trademark.
The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office issues the following statement:
- The entity responsible for the protecting and registering trademarks in Spain is the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO).
- Any communication from the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office is always properly identified with the institution's official seal, the name of the Ministerial Department it is attached to (Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism) and the logo and official denomination of the SPTO.
- No relationship whatsoever exists between the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office and these companies, and therefore any payment made to these associations will have no effect before the SPTO and will not secure any protection beyond that granted by virtue of registration with the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office.
- Interested parties should carefully study any documents they receive before making any payment to ensure that they are contracting products or services that are useful to them.
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