First Official 2016 Year-End Data On Industrial Property Statistics In Spain

On 21 October 2016 we delivered our predictions for the main Industrial Property figures for the end of 2016 in Spain and the figures filed before international bodies such as the OHIM and WIPO by Spaniards

In them, we published our statistical forecast, and, although it is wise to wait for the data to be "confirmed"¹, what we can safely predict is that the data will not vary greatly compared to the projection we provided in October, specifically by -0.25%.

The first provisional official data published², unfortunately indicate that the main milestones that we set out at the time will be confirmed, and some indicators will even worsen slightly. These include international, non-European-type indicators³ or those of applications under commercial names, the latter being especially worrisome since it tends to have a close relationship with national company-creation indicators. We hope it is only circumstantial.