A flood of patent fee updates
A Flood of Patent Fee Updates WIPO is making up for lost time this fall and has released several hundred patent fee updates in the latest PCT Applicants guide. Most updates are increases or decreases of less than a few Euros/Dollars, so we’ve condensed the update down to just the meaningful changes. Enjoy! Updated PCT […]
New PCT Fees for Georgia
Georgia PCT Patent Fee Updates This week’s patent updates are limited to some updates for Georgia. Nothing earth-shattering; the PCT Applicant’s Guide was updated to include some updated national filing costs and new costs for utility models. Check out the updates below! Updated Georgia PCT Patent Fees Highlights of the Georgia Updates: In Annex C: […]
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 PCT or Madrid costs. This week is no exception, with a few minor updates for Italy and the EPO, courtesy of the weekly PCT Applicant’s […]
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 increasing on November 1, in line with the other updates published two weeks ago. Let’s see what changed! Updated Egypt PCT Patent Fees Highlights of […]
IP Invoice Control: Not Just For Companies
As we mentioned last week, we’ve started monitoring quite a few more IP invoices from law firms. Most of our corporate clients focus on annuities, but with firms, it’s across the board and covers nearly every IP service. So, this week, we thought we would dig into what’s going on. Changing Attitudes About IP Invoice […]
A Light Week for PCT Patent Fees Updates
A Light Week of PCT Updates After the onslaught of updates last week, we were happy only to see a few small PCT Patent Fees updates this week. In reality, the fees this week didn’t even change; Georgia just updated the currency of their fees. Let’s see what changed! Updated Currency For Georgia PCT Patent […]
Q4 Patent Annuity Invoice Review Results Are In!
4th quarter patent annuity invoice reviews are largely done. So far this quarter, we’ve analyzed the equivalent of 40 million US dollars of invoices (we have EU and US clients), so we thought we’d compile and share some of our findings. Let’s take a look! Average FX Rates Are Still High There’s been a significant […]
A Plethora of PCT Patent Fee Updates – Part I
A Busy Week of PCT Updates To say there were a significant number of patent fee updates in the latest PCT Applicant’s Guide email would be an understatement. We stopped counting after the 50th jurisdiction. To keep things manageable, we’ve split it into two blog posts. Let’s see what changed! Armenia PCT Patent Fees Updated […]
A Plethora of PCT Patent Fee Updates – Part II
A Busy Week of PCT Updates Part II This is a continuation of the patent fee updates started in Part 1. We figured you needed a breather after all of those updates, so we split the post into two. Let’s see what changed! Mexico PCT Patent Fees Updated Effective November 1 Highlights of the Mexico […]
Navigating the Upcoming Canadian Patent and Trademark Fee Increase
If you’re an IP owner with Canadian IP rights, you should (hopefully) know about the patent and trademark fee increase coming in January 2024. There’s not much you can do to stop the increase, but with a couple of months until the change takes effect, you have some options to save money. We look at […]
