Regulatory aspects and management of graphene technology

Résumé

As such, there are numerous legal gaps in which the effects deriving from graphene applications swim. Industrial property, patentability, the definition or delimitation of the degree of originality, the setting of requirements to define protection, are some of the issues to be resolved. But the situation is much more complex since the legal issues are not only linked to the protection of graphene applications in Spain, but the regulatory framework must be located within the European Union in order to have a uniformity in such matters such as “nanosafety”, in particular, the possible risks and adverse effects, both for health and the environment associated with nanotechnology, and specifically with graphene; or its integration, given the particularities of its production through the treatment of minerals or other ways, within the circular economy systems, to name a few. As it is contemplated in the own work, good it will be that the legal preoccupations (if we do not want to do mere iuris-fiction) accompany to the realities that entails the process of maturation of a technology, in this case as it is the one of the graphene.