Global Innovation Policy Center

March 15, 2017

Spain


Primary Sources

  • Consolidated Text of the Law on Intellectual Property, regularizing, clarifying and harmonizing the Applicable Statutory Provisions (approved by Royal Legislative Decree No. 1/1996 of April 12, 1996, and amended up to Law No. 21/2014 of 4 November, 2014)
  • Law No. 1/2000 of January 7, 2000, on Civil Procedure (as amended up to Organic Law No. 16/2015 of October 27, 2015)
  • Law No. 10/2007 of June 22, 2007, on Reading, Books and Libraries (as amended by Law No. 21/2014 of November 4, 2014, amending the Consolidated Text of the Law on Intellectual Property) (2014)
  • Law No. 15/2007 of July 3, 2007 on the Protection of Competition (as last amended by Law No. 2/2011 of March 4, 2011)
  • Law No. 17/2001 of December 7, 2001, on Trademarks (as amended up to Law No. 24/2015 of July 24, 2015, on Patents)
  • Law No. 2/2011 of March 4, 2011, on Sustainable Economy (as last amended by Law No. 2/2012 of June 29, 2012) (2012)
  • Law No. 20/2003 of 7 July, 2003, on Legal Protection of Industrial Designs (as amended up to Law No. 24/2015 of July 24, 2015, on Patents)
  • Law No. 24/2015 of July 24, 2015, on Patents
  • Law No. 30/1992 of November 26, 1992, on General Government and the Common Administrative Procedure (as last amended by Royal Decree No. 8/2011 of July 1, 2011)
  • Law No. 34/2002 of July 11, 2002 on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (as last amended by Law No. 7/2010 of March 31, 2010
  • Law No. 43 of December 30, 1994, incorporating in Spanish Law Council Directive (EEC) No. 92/100 of November 19, 1992, on Rental Right and Lending Right and on Certain Rights Related to Copyright in the field of Intellectual Property (1994)
  • Order ECD/2166/2014 of November 14, 2014, establishing the Amount of the Fair Compensation for Private Copying Corresponding to the 2013 Financial Year, financed by the General State Budget and the Distribution of the same among the Three Types of Reproduction referred to by Law (2014)
  • Order ECD/2574/2015 of December 2, 2015, approving the Methodology for Fixing General Tariffs relating to the Remuneration due for the Use of Repertoires of Intellectual Property Collective Rights Management Societies (2015)
  • Order PRE/1743/2008 of June 18, 2008 establishing the List of Equipment, Apparatus and Materials subject to Payment of Fair Compensation for Private Copying, the Amounts Applied to Each of Them and the Distribution between Different Modes of Reproduction (2008)
  • Penal Code (Organic Law No. 10/1995 of November 23, 1995, as amended up to Law No. 4/2015 of April 27, 2015)
  • Regulation for the implementation of Law No. 11/1986 of 20 March, 1986, on Patents (approved by Royal Decree No. 2245/1986 of October 10, 1986, and last amended by Royal Decree No. 245/2010 of March 5, 2010)
  • Regulation implementing Law No. 20/2003 on Legal Protection of Industrial Designs (approved by Royal Decree No. 1937/2004 of September 27, 2004, and last amended by Royal Decree No. 1431/2008 of August 20, 2009)
  • Regulation on the implementation of Law No. 17/2001 of December 7, 2001 on Trademarks (approved by Royal Decree No. 687/2002 of July 12, 2002, and last amended by Royal Decree No. 1431/2008 of August 29, 2008)
  • Royal Decree No. 1023/2015 of November 13, 2015, setting forth the Regulations Governing the Composition, Organization and Functioning of the First Division of the Intellectual Property Commission (2015)
  • Royal Decree No. 1431/2008 of August 29, 2008 amending certain Regulations on Industrial Property
  • Royal Decree No. 1657/2012 of December 7, 2012, regulating the Procedure for Paying Fair Compensation in respect of Private Copying from the General State Budget (2012)
  • Royal Decree No. 1889/2011, of December 30, 2011, regulating the Operation of the Intellectual Property Commission (2011)
  • Royal Decree No. 2063/2008 of December 12, 2008, implementing Law No. 10/2007 of June 22, 2007, on Reading, Books and Libraries in relation to the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) (2008)
  • Royal Decree No. 224/2016 of May 27, 2016, setting forth the Legal Regime of Orphan Works (2016)
  • Royal Decree No. 2424/1986 of 10 October, 1986 for the implementation of the Convention on the Grant of European Patent, done in Munich on October 5, 1973 (as last amended by Royal Decree No. 1431/2008 of August 29, 2008) (2008)
  • Royal Decree No. 624/2014 of July 18, 2014, developing the Remuneration to the Authors for Lending their Works in Certain Publicly Accessible Establishments (2014)

EU Legislation

  • Directive (EU) 2016/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) against their unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure (2016)
  • Directive (EU) No. 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (2016)
  • Regulation (EU) 2015/2424 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark and
  • Commission Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 2869/95 on the fees payable to the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (2016)
  • Directive 2014/26/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online use in the internal market (2014)
  • Regulation (EU) No. 608/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 concerning customs enforcement of intellectual property rights and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No. 1383/2003 (2013)
  • Directive No. 2012/28/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on certain permitted uses of orphan works (2012)
  • Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use (2012)
  • Directive 2011/77/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011 amending Directive 2006/116/EC on the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights (2011)
  • Directive 2009/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the legal protection of computer programs (2009)
  • Council Regulation (EC) No. 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (codified version) (Text with EEA relevance) (2009)
  • Directive 2006/116/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights (2007)
  • Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (2004)
  • Council Regulation (EC) No. 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs (2002)
  • Directive No. 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (2001)

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  • AIPPI (2014), “Patents (Q228): Spain”
  • AIPPI (2014), “Second medical use or indication claims: Q238: Spain”
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  • EU Observatory in IP Rights (2009), “Injunctions in Intellectual Property Rights”
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  • EUIPO (2016), “The economic cost of IPR infringement in thespirits and wine sector”, July 2016
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  • LaLiga/La Coalicion (2016), “Piracy observatory and digital contents consumption habits 2015: Piracy Does not Ease”, 3/31/2016
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