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ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS

First.

The Special Register of Enterprises for the administration of industrial property matters, referred to in Article 296 et seq. of the Industrial Property Code [Estatuto de la Propiedad Industrial] of July 26, 1929, is hereby closed.

Second.

(1) The maximum periods for the completion of the procedures listed in this provision shall be counted from the date on which the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office receives the applications concerned, and shall be the following:

A. grant of patents and additions: if processed according to the general grant procedure, the period resulting from the addition of 14 months to the time that has elapsed between the date of receipt of the application and the publication thereof in the Official Bulletin of Industrial Property, and, if processed according to the grant procedure with prior examination, that resulting from the addition of 24 months to the said time;
B. grant of utility models and industrial and artistic designs: 12 months where there has been no suspension of the application and no opposition, and 20 months if either of the said events has occurred;
C. grant of topographies of semiconductor products: 12 months;
D. grant of supplementary protection certificates for drugs and phytosanitary goods: 12 months if there has been no suspension of the application and 20 months if the said event has occurred;
E. renewal of industrial and artistic designs: eight months if there has been no suspension and 12 months in the opposite case;
F. grant of compulsory licenses and licenses of right: eight months;
G. registration of assignments, real rights, contractual licenses and other modifications of rights: six months if there has been no suspension and eight months in the opposite case;
H. reinstatement of patents and utility models: six months.

(2) In the event of a change of industrial property title, the maximum period for completion shall be counted as from the filing date of the new documentation.

(3) When the proceedings are suspended by virtue of the provisions of Article 36(3) of this Law, the completion period shall likewise be suspended until the examination request is received and, if it is not, as provided in that provision, the proceedings shall resume.

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