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13. Promotion of Industrial<br />
Property (by SEGAPI)<br />
Country: Spain<br />
Fomento de la Propiedad Industrial (by Servicio Galego<br />
Original title:<br />
de Propiedad Industrial (SEGAPI))<br />
Target group: SMEs<br />
Coverage: Regional (Autonomous Community of Galicia)<br />
(Pro-active) awareness raising measures/Public Relations<br />
Information Provision Services<br />
Category*: Training<br />
Customized in-depth consulting and advisory services/<br />
points<br />
X Finance & Legal Framework<br />
*classification system defined by the Austrian Institute for SME Research<br />
13.1 Promotion of Industrial Property (SEGAPI)<br />
in a nutshell<br />
“Promotion of Industrial Property” (Fomento de la Propiedad Industrial) is an IPR<br />
support service to promote the usage of IP among SMEs in the autonomous<br />
community of Galicia. It can be seen as an example of how an IPR support service<br />
can also work in the regional context.<br />
The main objectives of the service are:<br />
� to increase IPR filings from the Galician region (as statistics have revealed that<br />
respective IPR filings are below the Spanish average);<br />
� to establish an IP culture among Galician enterprises;<br />
� to further strengthen the role of IPR as a competitive factor (again, statistical<br />
data suggests that Galician SMEs are lagging behind companies in other<br />
Spanish regions when it comes to IPR usage);<br />
The service is targeted specifically at SMEs from a distinctive region (Galicia),<br />
though it does not aim explicitly at any companies from a specific industry or from<br />
a specific technology field. The companies actually using the service belong to a<br />
variety of industry sectors and technology fields, whereby no technology field or<br />
industry stands out in the user group.<br />
All types of registrable IPR (patents, designs, trade marks and utility models) are<br />
covered; other IPR instruments (e.g., non registrable IPR, informal protection<br />
practices) are not specifically addressed. Furthermore, the service targets the<br />
phases of research on innovative projects and related IPRs (pre-registration phase),<br />
the process of registration/development of IPRs and also the acquisition of existing<br />
IPR rights. It does not, however, tackle the issue of how to utilize IPRs – all in all,<br />
the service is primarily an instrument to get SMEs to better use the formal IPR system.<br />
The subsidy programme started in 2005 as a pioneer. No target figures have been<br />
set in 2005. For the future, target figures may be introduced but, according to<br />
service experts, this is still debated.<br />
Background and resources<br />
The service providing organisation, the Industrial Property Service of Galicia<br />
(Servicio Galego de Propiedad Industrial – SEGAPI) was established in April 2004<br />
and is today run by the regional development and funding agency “Galician Board<br />
of Innovation, Industry and Commerce“ (Conselleria de Innovacion e industria).<br />
The service is part of a policy at regional level and financed by the regional<br />
governmental body of Galicia.<br />
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ANNEX I – CASE STUDIES