{"id":5916,"date":"2024-11-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lalonja.tech\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:48:32","slug":"protecting-your-companys-works-and-creations-intellectual-and-industrial-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lalonja.tech\/en\/protecting-your-companys-works-and-creations-intellectual-and-industrial-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting your company's works and creations: intellectual and industrial property"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Protecting your company\u2019s works and creations is a fundamental pillar for its good functioning, especially if it is based on innovation. It is important to protect them well to avoid legal problems in the future and to prevent other companies from copying you and benefiting from your creations. Making sure that the elements that make your startup unique are well protected is a crucial step on the road to success. Here is where intellectual and industrial property come into play, two elements that allow you to protect your assets well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But doing this can be somewhat difficult, since there are many concepts to understand. At La Lonja de la Innovaci\u00f3n we have mentors, such as Daniel Ramos, legal mentor<\/a>, who can guide startups in this process, but so that you can also be clear about how it is done, we tell you in this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Differentiating intellectual and industrial property<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is important to differentiate between industrial and intellectual property. The former refers to the rights that are applied to intangible assets, that is, those that can\u2019t be touched or seen, but can be marketed, such as patents, trademarks and industrial designs. On the other hand, intellectual property is related to copyrights, the ones that apply to creative, artistic, literary, scientific, theater or cinema plays, computer programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registering and protecting your creations gives you proof of the property of something, and in the event that someone infringes on your intellectual property, that is, they use something you have created without permission, you can defend your rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Spain we have different ways of registering your assets, since as we have seen, there are many creations that can be protected and, depending on what it is, the process will be one or another:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patents, trademarks and designs. These intangible assets are part of industrial property. The process is carried out through the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), but first of all, it is essential to make sure in the SPTO's databases if there is already a trademark, patent or design that is the same or very similar, because if so, yours could not be protected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n