New fees for designation of the Philippines in international trademark applications

WIPO reports about new individual fees for the designation of the Philippines in international applications for trademarks. The new fees will come into force on 26.05.2022 and are as follow:

New fees for the designation of Japan in international trademark applications

WIPO reports about new fees for the designation of Japan in international trademark applications. The fees will come into force on 01.04.2022 and are as follow:

New fees for registration of trademarks in the USA

The United States Patent Office will collect new increased fees regarding registration of trademarks. Some of these new fees are as follow:

• For online trademark application an increase of the fee from $275 to $350 per class;
• For Declaration of Continued Use an increase of the fee from $125 to $225 per class;
• Extension of the time for filing oppositions, an increase from $100 to $200 for the initial 90-day request and from $200 to $400 for a final 60-day request;
• Filing a Notice of Opposition or Petition to Cancel, an increase from $400 to $600 per class;

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In addition, WIPO announced new fees for international trademarks with designation of the USA. The new fees will take affect on 18.02.2021 and are as follow:

New fees for international trademarks for Armenia

WIPO reports about new individual fees for registration of international trademark where Armenia is designated country. The new fees that have been in force since 16.12.2020 are as follow:

New fees for registration of international marks for Iceland

WIPOreports about new individual fees for registration of international trademarks where Iceland is a designated country. The new fees that will come into force on 01.05.2020 are as follow:

 

Bear in mind this if you want to register a trademark in Canada

The trademark registration process in Canada will have some significant changes this year as a result of the trademark law reform which has been addopted recently.

The main changes that have to be taken into account by all who want to protect a trademark in there are:

 1. The term of trademark protection will be reduced from 15 to 10 years.

2.  Declaration of Use will be no longer required from trademark applicants –  as it is well-known Canada, similarly to The US, has required until now such declarations which to show a real use of the sign on the market. This was one of the significant differences when it comes to trademark filing compare to Europe, for instance. But no more. Still, trademark use will remain an important element of the protection because it will be a ground for invalidation in the case of a lack of genuine use.

3. Canada will introduce Nice Classification for goods and services for the purpose of trademark filing. In that way, Canada has joined almost all countries around the world that already use this classification.

4. An additional fee will be paid for every class above the first in case of filling of a trademark application or trademark renewal.

Source: April L. Besl (Dinsmore & Shohl LLP), Lexology.

New fees for international trademarks for Denmark

WIPO reports about new individual fees payable for designation of Denmark in international applications for trademarks. These fees, which will come into force on 01.07.2019, are as follow: