International Records
Brand
What is it?
Name, logo, label, container used to identify a particular product or service to the public.
What’s the use?
No other person may use the same or similar brand in Spain to identify identical or similar products or services to the public.
What is its duration?
10 years from the date of application for registration, which may be extended indefinitely by successive renewals for 10-year periods.
Modalities
- Community: a single register comprising simultaneous and compulsory protection in all European Union countries (EU), in such a way that the application must be granted in all countries or in none.
- International: A single record that includes protection only in those countries that are members of the convention that you select yourself. Please note that it is necessary for the applicant to have the same trademark registered or requested in one of the countries that are part of the agreement.
- Foreign: a single record that includes protection only in the country that you indicate us.
- Is it free? Ask for information to find out if the brand is free in the country you are interested in protecting.
Patent
What is it?
Procedure, product, mechanism.. That implies new world-wide.
What’s the use?
No other person may use or exploit in Spain an invention equal or similar.
What is its duration?
20 years from the date of application for registration, a maintenance fee must be paid each year from the third party.
Modalities
- European A single record that includes protection in those European countries that are members of the European Patent Convention that you select yourself.
- PCT A single record that includes protection in those countries, Europeans and other continents, members of the PCT convention that you select yourself.
- Foreign A single record that includes protection only in the country that you indicate us.
- Which country or countries are you interested in protecting? We inform you without any commitment of which of these three is the most economical and fast way to achieve it, budget, procedure…
Utility model
Protection of inventions which provide some advantage in the use or manufacture of a particular object, utensil, Machine… In those countries whose legislation allows it.
Industrial Designs
Modalities
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- European
European
AT EUROPEAN LEVEL YOU CAN PROTECT YOUR CREATIONS IN A WAY WITH THE APPLICATION OF INDUSTRY NOW THROUGH THE COMMUNITY DESIGN MANAGED BEFORE THE OHIM THROUGH A SINGLE APPLICATION, GET PROTECTION OF THE FORM OF YOUR MODEL OR DESIGN IN THE 27 COUNTRIES THAT ARE PART OF THE EU CURRENTLY, THE CONDITIONS OF PROTECTION ARE THE SAME AS THOSE PRESENTED BY THE NATIONAL DESIGN.
It shall be understood as:
A. ‘ drawings and/or models ‘: the appearance of the whole or part of a product, derived from the characteristics, in particular, of the lines, contours, colours, shape, texture and/or materials of the product itself and/or its ornamentation;
B. ‘ Product ‘ means any industrial or handicraft article, including, inter alia, parts intended for installation in a complex product, packaging, presentation, graphic symbols and typographic characters, excluding programmes Computer
C. ‘ Complex product ‘ means a product consisting of multiple replaceable components which allow the product to be dismantled and re-assembled.
1. Member States shall protect designs by registering and confer exclusive rights to their holders in accordance with the provisions of this directive.
2. Protection shall be granted to a drawing or model by a right to a design in so far as it is new and has a unique character.
3. Only the drawing or model applied or incorporated into a product constituting a component of a complex product shall be considered to be new and has a unique character:
A. If it is reasonably expected that the component, once incorporated into the complex product, remains visible during the normal use of the latter; and B. To the extent that those visible characteristics of the component meet in themselves the requirements of novelty and singular character.
4. For the purposes of paragraph 3 (a), “normal use” means the use by the final consumer, not including maintenance, maintenance or repair.
A drawing or model shall be deemed to be new when no other identical is made available to the public before the filing date of the application for registration or, if priority is claimed, before the priority date. Drawings and models are considered identical when their characteristics differ only in irrelevant details.
A drawing or model shall be deemed to have a singular character when the general impression it produces in an informed user differs from the general impression produced in that user by any other design which has been made available to the public before The date of filing of the application for registration or, if priority is claimed, before the priority date.
In determining whether or not a design has a unique character, the degree of freedom of the author will be taken into account when developing the drawing or model.
After registration, any drawing or model shall be protected by a right on a design for one or more periods of five years from the date of submission of the application. The rightholder may renew the term of protection for one or more five-year periods up to a maximum of twenty-five years from the date of submission of the application.