Surveillance

COPAT®: LEARN ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN YOUR FIELD AND WHAT YOUR COMPETITORS ARE DOING

One of the strategic requirements that is key to your business is always being up-to-date with the trademarks, patents and designs that are being registered and published, as this will affect your decisions in many ways:

• You will know as soon as possible about the technological changes that will affect your products and services and that may lead you to change your business strategy.
• You will be aware of your competitors’ activity and the changes that are taking place in your general business environment.
• It will enable you to guide the development and promotion of new products and services according to the latest commercial and technological innovations in your sector, focusing your R&D more securely and efficiently.
• You will be able to implement measures to file your opposition against patents, trademarks or designs that may infringe the rights of your intangible assets, affect your economic growth and damage your image.

In the case of the latter, measures must be implemented as soon as possible, since if an opposition is not filed within the established legal time frame, you will have to file an appeal before the courts, a proceeding that will considerably increase the time and money needed in order for the corresponding ruling to be issued.

COPAT®: STOP WORRYING ABOUT TECHNOLOGICAL MONITORING

It is for this reason that it is important to have a standardised technological monitoring method that enables the information to be collected, analysed and used in order to make useful decisions for your company.

At ACOPAT we have created the COPAT® monitoring service, which you may subscribe for a worldwide or national surveillance:

• Trademark Monitoring Service, which includes monitoring trademarks in the Spanish, European and international areas, always taking into account the time period available to file an opposition if required.
• Global Trademark Monitoring Service, thanks to which you will be kept abreast of the trademark publications that are similar to yours and in your field of activity in any country. This will help you establish the most appropriate defence to safeguard your interests.
• Technological Monitoring Service, which consists of a summary of the technical innovations in the industrial sector you are interested in and endorse. This service includes Spanish patents and utility models, European and PCT patents validated in Spain, Spanish designs and international designs.