IP Currency Costs: More Than a Maintenance Issue
Over the past several years, we’ve seen a significant focus on improving currency cost controls for patent annuities and trademark renewals but comparatively less on other IP costs, like applications. […]
Australia and Finland Madrid Trademark Fee Decreases
Madrid Fee Decrease For Australia And Finland Another light week of fee updates this week. We have a couple of fee decreases and not much else to talk about. More […]
Prokurio – a Year of Adventure!
This is a big week for Prokurio – we’re attending our first conference and recently celebrated our one-year birthday. Given all this, we thought this week we’d take a moment […]
Madrid Fee Increase for Colombia
Madrid Fee Increase for Colombia There was only one fee update this week – a fairly sizable increase to Madrid trademark fees for Colombia. Check out the details below! Colombia […]
Trademark Fee Increase Coming to Argentina
Trademark Fee Increase Coming to Argentina Argentina won the “biggest fee increase of the week” award with its planned increase in December. It also won the “only trademark fee increase […]
Currency Preview for Q1 Patent Annuities
Invoices for patent annuities due in the first quarter of 2024 will arrive in one month, so we thought we’d check in with the currency markets* and see how currency […]
Italy and EPO PCT Patent Fee Updates
Italy and EPO PCT Patent Fee Updates We’ve seen a surprisingly small number of patent fee updates this fall, and most of the changes have been minor inflationary adjustments in […]
IP Owners! Avoid These 3 Fixed-Fee Agreement Pitfalls
With year-end approaching, many IP owners are about to begin the annual vendor review and fee schedule analysis ritual. Over the years, fixed-fee agreements have emerged as the silver bullet […]
Georgia and Egypt PCT Patent Fee Updates
Georgia and Egypt PCT Patent Fee Updates This week’s only PCT patent fee updates came from the PCT Applicant’s Guide Update email. International filing fees for Georgia and Egypt are […]
Israel and South Korea Hague Design Fees Being Decreased
Israel and South Korea Hague Design Fees Being Decreased Hague Design fees don’t change often, but we have a few small decreases in Israel and South Korea this week. Let’s […]
