A trade name is a title that grants the exclusive right to use any mark or name to identify a company involved in trading activity. Like industrial property rights, trade names are not the same as company names registered in Mercantile Registers.

 
-Maximum duration: indefinite, in renewable 10-years periods starting from the application date
 
-Maintenance: every 10 years
 
-Protection in all the Spanish national territory
 
-Registrations are made before the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office