Insights on patents, trademarks, and design protection
A practice manual for renewing Uruguayan trade mark registrations. Uruguay is outside the Madrid system, its fees are denominated in an inflation-indexed unit revalued monthly, and the amount differs by type of mark.
A practice manual for renewing Turkish trade mark registrations. Fees are set in lira and are revised upward substantially each year, so a quotation given months earlier rarely still holds, and the grace period uses a separate, much higher schedule.
A practice manual for renewing Russian trade mark registrations. Since October 2025 the fee has been metered, so the number of goods in each class enters the amount alongside the class count, and payment routing needs to be arranged well ahead of the deadline.
A practice manual for renewing Indian trade mark registrations. Because of the examination backlog, registration often issues shortly before or after expiry, and such cases benefit from a rule allowing the renewal fee within six months of the actual registration date.
A practice manual for renewing Israeli trade mark registrations. Some sources measure the term from registration, but the anchor is the filing date; the window is reported as short, and restoration remains possible up to a year after expiry in special circumstances.
A practice manual for renewing French trade mark registrations. The window opens a full year ahead, the longest in Europe, but relief after the grace period is expressly excluded by regulation — so those six months really are the end.
A practice manual for renewing Chilean trade mark registrations. The window spans twelve months — six before expiry and six after — and the fee is denominated in an inflation-indexed unit that changes every month.
A practice manual for renewing Brazilian trade mark registrations. Brazil long operated a one-class-per-application system, so a client protecting several classes holds as many registrations and renews each separately.
A practice manual for renewing Australian trade mark registrations. The window opens a year ahead and the office sends a reminder two months before expiry, but the late fee accrues monthly and there is no restoration.
A practice manual for renewing United Arab Emirates trade mark registrations, a jurisdiction where the length of the grace period and the availability of restoration are reported inconsistently, so the safe approach is to manage to the shorter reading.
A practice manual for renewing South African trade mark registrations. South Africa is outside the Madrid system, so every case is a direct filing, and restoration remains available after the grace period where the failure was not intentional.
A practice manual for renewing Vietnamese trade mark registrations. Renewal in Vietnam is examined, so payment does not complete it: a decision issues three to four months later, and only that decision closes the matter.
A practice manual for renewing Ukrainian trade mark registrations. Deadlines have been suspended under martial law since 2022, so a passed expiry date must not be read as a lapse — suspended periods resume sixty days after martial law ends.
A practice manual for renewing Taiwanese trade mark registrations. Taiwan is outside the Madrid system, so every case is a direct filing, and the term is measured from the date of publication of registration.
A practice manual for renewing Thai trade mark registrations. The window opens only three months before expiry, fees are charged per item of goods rather than per class, and renewal is examined, so a deficiency notice creates a fresh sixty-day deadline.
A practice manual for renewing Singapore trade mark registrations. The form and the procedure never change — the fee does, stepping up through three bands depending on when the request is filed.