Fees, Materials and Process Questions

Because the official fee is only part of it. Differences come from what is included in the search, whether office actions are covered, who actually prepares the filing, and whether renewal or maintenance is priced separately. Compare scope, not the headline number.

Official fees per class and country, agency fees for search, filing and each response stage, translation or local counsel costs where relevant, and the renewal and maintenance deadlines you will face later. Anything vague should be pinned down before filing.

Renewal every ten years plus, in the US, the use declaration between the fifth and sixth year. Budget for those, because a lapsed registration cannot support a marketplace complaint and re-filing costs more than keeping the original alive.

Generally yes, especially inventions: drafting is skilled work, examination often produces objections, and national phases add translation and local agent fees. Designs are the exception — comparatively inexpensive for the enforcement value they give sellers.

The applicant's identity documents, the mark exactly as it will be used, a precise goods and services list, and any priority you intend to claim. For the US you will also need a specimen that shows the mark on the goods or their packaging.

A technical disclosure with structure, principle, drawings and working examples; the dates of any public disclosure or sale; and the inventor and applicant details. The quality of that disclosure largely determines how broad the granted right can be.

Once documents and payment are confirmed we file within 48 hours. The clock that matters, though, is the one you start before launch — every design and trademark is stronger when it predates your first public listing.

Receipts arrive in days, examination in months, and the total depends on the market: EU and UK 4-6 months, China 7-9 months, US 8-10 months, Madrid 12-18 months for a designation to take effect.

We start from where you sell and what can be copied. Typical first year: a word mark in your main market, Brand Registry, and a design filing on the hero product. Ask for a written scope and we will price that sequence rather than everything at once.