Please give details of the major acts and directives governing patents in Spain
Patent Act 1986 of 20 March, No 11/1986, as amended (this brought into force the European Council Directive 98/44/EC of 6 July on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions).
Royal Decree No 996/2001 of 10 September 2001 established the general application of the procedure for the granting of national patents subject to preliminary examination...
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