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Expert perspectives on intellectual property strategy, patent law, trademark protection, and IP portfolio management from the PerspireIP team.
A Philippine trademark carries four Declarations of Actual Use, each measured from a different anchor — filing date, registration date, renewal date, and the fifth anniversary of every renewal. Only the first can be extended, and the gap between the first two is not two years but two years plus prosecution.
Read MorePatent drawings in Italy answer to Article 22: A4, 2.5 cm margins, black ink, no colour. The UIBM rules and the 2020 PCT change that decide acceptance.
Read MoreA practical guide to entering the PCT national phase in the UAE: the 30-month deadline, Arabic translation, fees, examination and enforcement.
Read MoreNigerian trademark terms are seven years, renewals are fourteen, and section 22(2) makes the application date the date of registration — so prosecution time is subtracted from the term rather than added to it. Nigeria is also outside the Madrid System, so no central renewal reaches it.
Read MorePatent drawings in Sweden rest on one sentence of statute: A4, dark lines, light background. The 8 rules that decide whether PRV accepts your figure set.
Read MoreHow trademark registration in Qatar actually works: the national MOCI filing, the new Madrid Protocol route since August 2024, the four-month opposition window, costs, renewals and use.
Read MoreHow trademark registration in UAE actually works: the national Ministry of Economy filing, the Madrid Protocol route, the 30-day opposition window, costs, renewals and the five-year use rule.
Read MoreA practical guide to how to file a patent in Qatar: the national and PCT routes, the 30-month deadline, examination, costs, annuities and where disputes are decided.
Read MoreA practical guide to trademark registration in Poland: the national UPRP route, the EU trademark, the Madrid system, the three-month opposition window, costs, renewals and use.
Read MoreEvery connected car ships with cellular technology owned by dozens of patent holders. Here is how automotive patent licensing works in 2026 — pool versus direct, what the Avanci rates are, and what the Tesla FRAND ruling means for the pool-or-bilateral decision.
Read MoreHow intellectual property is actually enforced in the United Arab Emirates — the 2021 federal laws, the four enforcement routes, the courts that hear disputes, and the remedies you can realistically win.
Read MoreTaiwanese trademark terms run ten years from publication of registration, and publication follows your own registration fee payment — so the applicant's payment timing moves the renewal anchor for the life of the mark. Taiwan is also outside the Madrid System, so no central renewal reaches it.
Read MoreThe Netherlands grants patents without examining novelty, which makes the formal drawing requirements the only gate before grant — and the courts in The Hague the first competent reader of your figures.
Read MoreA practitioner's guide to the five types of patent estoppel — prosecution history, assignor, collateral, judicial and equitable — and how to avoid each one.
Read MoreA practical, step-by-step guide to filing a patent in Saudi Arabia through SAIP — routes, the 30-month PCT deadline, examination, fees and enforcement.
Read MoreTurkish trademark terms run ten years from the application date while the five-year non-use clock runs from registration — and every two-month statutory period starts the day Turkpatent serves your agent, not the day you read the report.
Read MoreSwitzerland never examines your invention for novelty, but it will hold your application up over the figures. Article 28 PatV sets the rules, and Article 59a lets the IPI reject an application whose drawings are never fixed.
Read MoreSouth Africa grants patents without examining them, so the real test comes in court. Here is how IP enforcement actually works — the forums, the remedies, and the Counterfeit Goods Act.
Read MoreThe GCC Patent Office is closed to new filings. Here is how to protect an invention in the UAE now — the three routes, the deadlines that end a case, and what it costs.
Read MoreSaudi trademark terms run ten Hijri years from the filing date — roughly nine years eight months — so a Gregorian ten-year diary entry fires about 109 days after the registration has already expired. Since 8 October 2026 a Madrid designation adds a second, solar renewal clock to the same brand.
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