Abstract The new Spanish Patent Act ("Law 24/2015, of July 24, on Patents") was passed by the Spanish Parliament in July 2015, but did not enter into force until 1st. April 2017. Among other important changes in comparison with the previous 1986 Act, the new regulation stablishes a single granting procedure with substantive examination for every patent application. Regarding patent information, some new document kind codes have been created in order to cope with the additional procedures provided for in the new Act. On the other hand, as a consequence of the implementation of substantive examination, the new Act seems to have fostered the use of patent information services as a means to ensure in advance the novelty and inventiveness of the patent applications. This communication informs about both the new types of Spanish patent documents and the apparent surge in the use of patent information services in Spain as a consequence of the implementation of the new regulation.

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西班牙新专利法对专利信息的影响

摘要 西班牙议会于 2015 年 7 月通过了新的西班牙专利法（“Law 24/2015, of July 24, on Patents”），但直到 1 日才生效。2017 年 4 月。与之前的 1986 年法案相比，除其他重要变化外，新法规确立了对每项专利申请进行实质审查的单一授权程序。关于专利信息，为了应对新法案中规定的附加程序，已经创建了一些新的文件类型代码。另一方面，作为实施实质审查的结果，新法似乎促进了专利信息服务的使用，作为提前确保专利申请的新颖性和创造性的手段。