Abstract
The new Spanish Patent Act ("Law 24/2015, of July 24, on Patents") was passed by the Spanish Parliament in July 2015, but did not enter into force until 1st. April 2017. Among other important changes in comparison with the previous 1986 Act, the new regulation stablishes a single granting procedure with substantive examination for every patent application. Regarding patent information, some new document kind codes have been created in order to cope with the additional procedures provided for in the new Act. On the other hand, as a consequence of the implementation of substantive examination, the new Act seems to have fostered the use of patent information services as a means to ensure in advance the novelty and inventiveness of the patent applications. This communication informs about both the new types of Spanish patent documents and the apparent surge in the use of patent information services in Spain as a consequence of the implementation of the new regulation.
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