The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade approved the resolutions on March 17, 2008, the Spanish Office of Patents and Trademarks, which convenes for the year 2008, granting subsidies for the "Promotion of applications patents abroad. "
(OSG. 73, dated 25 March 2008)

Aim

By this resolution is the call for the grant by the Spanish Office of Patents and Trademarks of subsidies for the development of applications for patents in foreign countries by the year 2008, under the Order ITC/643/2008 of 7 March (BOE of March 11), which establishes the regulatory foundation for these grants.
The grants are intended to be summoned to finance a portion of the costs of patent applications abroad, using the national track of individual countries, the European Way across the provisions of the European Patent Convention (hereinafter SPC) or via the Patent Cooperation Treaty (hereinafter PCT).
b) To be a PCT international application filed with the Spanish Office of Patents and Trademarks, as receiving Office under the Patent Cooperation Treaty or other national applications in third countries or make use of regional priority of the international application filed with the SPTO.

An application referred to in the preceding paragraph shall meet one of the following characteristics:
a) That the right of priority bring unionist cause of a patent application or utility model filed with the Spanish Office of Patents and Trademarks (SPTO), in accordance with Article 4 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, - March 20, 1883.

Beneficiaries
1. The beneficiary is the natural or legal person, based in Spain, who carried out the activity covered by the subsidy.
2. They may be beneficiaries of aid that might be called:
a) Companies.
b) Private research and development nonprofit.
c) Technology Centers.
c) That it is a European patent application filed with the Spanish Office of Patents and Trademarks, according to the provisions of article 2 of Royal Decree 2424/1986, of October 10, 1986, implementing the Convention Grant of European Patents done at Munich on October 5, 1973, or other national applications in third countries or make use of regional priority of the European patent application filed with the SPTO.
d) public research bodies.
e) The universities, institutes and university departments.
f) Other public entities.To do so, shall appoint a sole representative or attorney of the grouping, with sufficient powers to discharge the obligations as a recipient, correspond to the grouping.
4. For the purpose of aid is meant to be convened by:
a) Company: Entity, whatever their legal form, engaged in an economic activity and is validly constituted at the time of filing the application for assistance.
g) groups or associations.
h) Natural persons.
3. Clusters of individuals and / or legal person before the law without having undergone the activity covered by the subsidy may be benefiting from this aid, provided that the application comprising the commitments made by each member.For the purposes of this order, particularly in integrating the concept of corporate public enterprise, public authorities and business individual entrepreneurs.For the purposes of considering that a company has the status of SMEs take into account the criteria laid down in Article 2 of the recommendation from the Commission on May 6, 2003 on the definition of micro, small and medium enterprises.
b) Private research and development non-profit: Any private entity with legal personality and non-profit, with demonstrated ability and activity projects or actions in scientific research and technological development.
d) public research institutions such meaning as defined and regulated by Law 13/1986, April 14, for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research and development of its provisions.
Also, for the purposes of this order, shall be regarded by public research organizations: The attached or dependent on other government.
Other Centres public research and development.
e) universities, institutes and university departments, taken in accordance with the provisions of the Organic Act 6 / 2001 of December 21, Universities.
f) Other Entities of Public Law: The envisaged in Article 2 of Law 30/1992 of November 26, the Legal Regime of Public Administration and the Common Administrative Procedure, not above.
g) groups or associations, including:
I. Union venture (UTE).
II. Economic interest groups, formed by companies or companies with other entities (IEA).
III. Sectoral business associations nonprofit performing projects between their activities and actions of research and development for their sector.
5. They may not obtain the status of beneficiary persons or entities who attends some of the circumstances detailed in Article 13.2 and 3 of the General Law on Grants.

Financier
The award of these grants will be agreed within existing budgetary availability, paid them from implementing budgetary 20.102.421N, concepts 441, 444, 451.01, 471 and 484 of the expenditure budget of the Spanish Office of Patents and Trademarks (Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade) by 2008, "Promotion Programme Patent abroad" maximum amount of total grants made this call may not exceed the amount of 2.180,000 euros.

Application deadline
The final deadline for submitting applications will be until the day on April 25, 2008.