Prepare your trade mark

- make sure your trade mark is a distinctive, word, logo, picture or other sign that clearly identifies your goods and services from other traders

- decide what classes of goods or services you require.

- check if your trade or name has not already been registered. If you wish to register a name, visit our website http://www.oepm.es/Localizador/homeLocalizador.jsp. If your search does not find an identical sign, you should ask the SPTO, and pay a fee for another search for previous applications or rights according to phonetic similarity

We respond by issuing a filing receipt which includes an application number.

If you are applying without the help of a patent agent we will also send you a pamphlet explaining the next steps.

We carry out an examination to make sure your application meets certain formal requirements. The SPTO does not examine whether similar or identical trade marks have already been registered

We will notify you of any infringement of the law detected and shall give you a period of one or two months in which to respond.

Applications failing to pass this assessment phase will be rejected.

If no one has opposed your registration or you overcome the sustantive examination your registration becomes final and you can collect the registration certificate. "