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Thailand Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
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.
Singapore Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
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.
Saudi Arabia Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for renewing Saudi trade mark registrations. The term is ten Hijri years, roughly nine years and eight months on the Gregorian calendar, so a deadline set ten Gregorian years out is about four months late.
New Zealand Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for renewing New Zealand trade mark registrations. The term runs from the earlier of the filing date and the convention priority date, so a case claiming priority expires up to a year sooner than a filing-date calculation suggests.
Malaysia Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for renewing Malaysian trade mark registrations. The restoration period runs from the date of removal rather than from expiry, so the last available date differs from case to case and cannot be calculated in advance.
Japan Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for renewing Japanese trademark registrations: choosing to pay the renewal fee in two instalments creates a second deadline five years later, and missing it extinguishes the right retroactively from that point.
Indonesia Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for renewing Indonesian trade mark registrations. Requests are accepted only from six months before expiry, the six-month grace period runs on a doubled fee schedule, and there is no restoration afterwards.
Hong Kong Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for renewing Hong Kong trade mark registrations. The Madrid system does not extend to Hong Kong, so every case is a direct filing renewed with the Hong Kong registry.
United Kingdom Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for renewing United Kingdom trade mark registrations, including the comparable rights created by Brexit, which inherit the EU expiry date and therefore fall due on the same day as the EUTM.
EU Trade Mark (EUIPO) Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for renewing European Union trade marks: the term is measured from the filing date, not the registration date, so a case with a long examination is exposed if the deadline is calculated from registration.
China Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for renewing Chinese trademark registrations: the anchor is the approval-of-registration date rather than the filing date, the window opens a generous twelve months early, and once the grace period passes there is no restoration of any kind.
Canada Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for renewing Canadian trade mark registrations. There is no late surcharge, but early payment is refused, the fee is indexed and rises every 1 January, and pre-2019 fifteen-year registrations switch to ten years at their first renewal.
Argentina Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for maintaining Argentine trade mark registrations. Renewal alone is not enough: a mid-term declaration of use falls due between the fifth and sixth anniversaries, and failing to file it accrues charges that must all be cleared before renewal.
United States Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for maintaining United States trademark registrations, where the declaration of use — not the renewal fee — is the real obligation: the §8 filing at years 5-6, the combined §8/§9 at years 9-10, the §71 clock for Madrid designations, the absence of any restoration, and the derived deadlines created by the post-registration audit programme.
Philippines Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for maintaining Philippine trademark registrations, where managing the renewal alone loses the right: four separate declarations of actual use run on their own clocks, the first of them falling three years after filing, before registration has even issued.
Mexico Trademark Renewal: Management Manual
A practice manual for maintaining Mexican trademark registrations: the expiry anchor splits between the registration date and the filing date, and a declaration of use falls due at the third anniversary of registration. That declaration cannot be extended and, if it is not filed, the registration lapses automatically without any notice.