Registration guides

Dossiers, filing channels, workflows, costs and timelines for each right.

Which procedure to use, and what it costs

A comparison of the four registration procedures by cost, time and what you actually get — plus two fee reliefs running to the end of 2026.

Filing internationally — PCT, Madrid and The Hague

Three international filing systems let one application hold your place in many countries — the prerequisites, deadlines and traps of each.

Renewing and maintaining your titles

Every right is maintained differently — trademarks renew forever, patents pay annually, designs cap at 15 years. Forgetting a fee is the most common way to lose a right.

When to engage an industrial property representative

Foreign applicants must go through a representative; Vietnamese applicants need not. So when is one worth hiring, and how do you pick someone who will not wreck your file.