Spanish Patent and Trademark Office

E314887

government agency intellectual property office national patent office

The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office is Spain’s national authority responsible for examining, granting, and managing patents, trademarks, and other industrial property rights, and it also serves as an International Searching Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas	3
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office canonical	3
Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas, O.A.	1
national trademark office of Spain	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2971994 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
Context triple: [International Searching Authority, exampleOffice, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office]

A. Royal Spanish Academy
The Royal Spanish Academy is the official institution responsible for overseeing and standardizing the Spanish language across the Spanish-speaking world.
B. Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
The Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain) is the Spanish national agency responsible for geodesy, cartography, and geophysical monitoring, including seismic and volcanic activity across the country.
C. Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid
The Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid is Spain’s principal national library and a major cultural institution that preserves and provides access to the country’s documentary heritage, including important historical manuscripts and rare works.
D. Bank of Spain
The Bank of Spain is Spain’s central bank, responsible for national monetary policy and financial supervision, and is famously depicted as the main heist target in the TV series "Money Heist."
E. Spanish Ministry of Public Works
The Spanish Ministry of Public Works is a government department responsible for national infrastructure, including transportation networks, public works, and related civil engineering projects in Spain.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
Target entity description: The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office is Spain’s national authority responsible for examining, granting, and managing patents, trademarks, and other industrial property rights, and it also serves as an International Searching Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.

A. Royal Spanish Academy
The Royal Spanish Academy is the official institution responsible for overseeing and standardizing the Spanish language across the Spanish-speaking world.
B. Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
The Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain) is the Spanish national agency responsible for geodesy, cartography, and geophysical monitoring, including seismic and volcanic activity across the country.
C. Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid
The Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid is Spain’s principal national library and a major cultural institution that preserves and provides access to the country’s documentary heritage, including important historical manuscripts and rare works.
D. Bank of Spain
The Bank of Spain is Spain’s central bank, responsible for national monetary policy and financial supervision, and is famously depicted as the main heist target in the TV series "Money Heist."
E. Spanish Ministry of Public Works
The Spanish Ministry of Public Works is a government department responsible for national infrastructure, including transportation networks, public works, and related civil engineering projects in Spain.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	government agency ⓘ intellectual property office ⓘ national patent office ⓘ
abbreviation	OEPM ⓘ SPTO ⓘ
city	Madrid ⓘ
cooperatesWith	European Patent Office ⓘ World Intellectual Property Organization ⓘ
country	Spain ⓘ
countryOfHeadquarters	Spain ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Madrid ⓘ
jurisdiction	Spain ⓘ
legalStatus	public body ⓘ
memberOf	European Patent Organisation (as national office of a member state) ⓘ linked to: European Patent Office
nativeName	Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas ⓘ linked to: Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
officialLanguage	Spanish ⓘ
parentOrganization	Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism of Spain ⓘ
participatesIn	European Patent Network ⓘ Patent Cooperation Treaty ⓘ
responsibility	administration of industrial designs ⓘ administration of supplementary protection certificates ⓘ administration of trade names ⓘ administration of utility models ⓘ examination of patent applications ⓘ examination of trademark applications ⓘ granting of patents ⓘ granting of trademarks ⓘ maintenance of industrial property registers ⓘ management of patents ⓘ management of trademarks ⓘ promotion of industrial property protection ⓘ provision of patent information services ⓘ publication of industrial property bulletins ⓘ
role	national authority for industrial property in Spain ⓘ national patent office of Spain ⓘ national trademark office of Spain ⓘ linked to: Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
scope	national ⓘ
sector	industrial property ⓘ intellectual property ⓘ
service	industrial property databases ⓘ online filing of industrial property applications ⓘ registration of industrial designs ⓘ registration of national patents ⓘ registration of national trademarks ⓘ registration of utility models ⓘ search and examination of international patent applications ⓘ
treatyRole	International Preliminary Examining Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty ⓘ linked to: International Preliminary Examining Authority International Searching Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty ⓘ linked to: International Searching Authority
website	https://www.oepm.es ⓘ

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