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24 July, 2018
El pasado mes de junio de 2018, AB ASESORES, que ya contaba con la certificación ISO 9001:2008 para el asesoramiento técnico jurídico en materia de Propiedad Industrial e Intelectual, obtuvo con éxito el Certificado de Calidad ISO 9001:2015, después de la correspondiente auditoría externa llevada a cabo por el organismo certificador Bureau Veritas. La nueva versión de la norma ISO 9001:2015 es la más reconocida a nivel internacional en Sistemas de Gestión de la Calidad. Algunos de los cambios más importantes de ésta con respecto a la ISO 9001:2008 radican […]
5 June, 2018
Por noveno año consecutivo y dentro del Calendario de actividades formativas para Doctorandos de la Escuela de Doctorado de la Universidad de Navarra se ha impartido por parte de AB ASESORES a lo largo del mes de mayo y en el Campus de San Sebastian de la Escuela de Ingenieros TECNUN un Curso de Legislación Científica centrado en las materias de Propiedad Industrial y Propiedad Intelectual siendo el contenido principal: Introducción a la Propiedad Intelectual y Propiedad Industrial; Signos distintivos; Concepto de marca; Invenciones; Modelos de Utilidad; Diseño Industrial; Protección […]
26 April, 2018
On 12 April, Dr Miguel Veiga, Engineer and Technical Director at AB ASESORES, and Mr Juan Sanchez, Engineer and Pamplona Office Manager at AB ASESORES, gave a Conference for students studying the Design Degree at the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra. This Design Degree has 240 ECTS divided over 4 academic courses with 60 ECTS each. This means that after the third year, students will specialise in Product Design, Fashion or Services. AB ASESORES gave students information on: Basic aspects of Industrial and Intellectual Property: patents, trademarks, […]
5 June, 2017
Last Thursday, on the first of June, the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office published the draft of the “2017 Strategy Plan Regarding Industrial Property” on their website. The plan lists twenty-seven measures which fall within four main lines of action: Promotion of Industrial Property in Spain. Internationalisation. Enforcement of Industrial Property Rights. Quality and excellence. Spain currently ranks twenty-eighth according to the Global Innovation Index that analyses eighty different indicators to measure the innovation of a country. The situation has changed little since the first study in this respect that […]
22 May, 2017
AB ASESORES will give a talk on 27 June at the Navarra Marketing Club titled “Developments of the new Patent Law (in force since the first of April) and its impact on companies”. This talk will present the changes that the new Patent Law 24/2015 introduces, in relation to patent inventions and utility models. It will give a detailed presentation of the most relevant modifications, such as the new patent granting procedure, post-granting opposition procedure, broadening of the application field of utility models, changes in terms of fees and payment […]
8 May, 2017
For the eighth year running and around this time of year, AB ASESORES has taught the Legislation and Intellectual Property course for the doctorate in applied engineering offered by TECNUN at the University of Navarra on the San Sebastián campus. The course is made up of eight 3-hour training sessions in which the aim is for future doctors to acquire the basic concepts relating to IP, which in Spain is subdivided into Industrial Property (patents, designs and trademarks) and Intellectual Property (copyright), especially from an eminently practical perspective in the […]
24 April, 2017
The new and long-awaited Law 24/2015 of 24 July on Patents came into force on the 1 April. It was not until the day before, 31 March, that the Council of Ministers approved the Regulation for Execution in the Royal Decree 316/2017. The Law included many new developments with respect to utility models, the process for obtaining Supplementary Protection Certificates, fee payment, employee inventions, etc. However, the big development that this new Law incorporates relates to the patent granting process. By including the obligation to carry out the examination prior […]