Overview
The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, O.A., (OEPM) is the Autonomous Organism of the General Administration of the State, dependent on the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, responsible for the registration and granting of the different modalities of Industrial Property; patents and utility models (inventions), industrial designs (form creations), trademarks and business names (distinctive signs) and titles of protection of semiconductor product topographies. Furthermore, it has among its functions, to disseminate information related to the different forms of protection of industrial property.