Trademarks are priced per class and per mark, so we quote after a clearance read rather than from a list. Send us the mark and what you sell.
Incorporating with the SEC gives you a corporate name. Registering with DTI gives you a business name. Neither stops another company from selling under your brand, opening a store under your logo, or filing your name before you do.
The Philippines follows first to file. Ownership of a mark comes from registration, not from how long you have been using it. If someone else files first, the burden shifts to you.
Six stages, each with a deadline attached. We run all of them and tell you where your application sits at every step.
We search the Philippine trademark register for identical and confusingly similar marks in your classes before anything is filed, so you know your odds going in rather than after paying government fees.
Your mark is registered against specific goods and services under the Nice Classification. Filing too narrow leaves gaps competitors can walk into. Filing too broad raises cost and invites objections. We map your actual and near-term offering to the right classes.
We prepare the representation of the mark, the goods and services list, and the applicant details, then file on your behalf through the trademark office's online filing system.
Formalities are reviewed first, then the mark is examined on substantive grounds. If the examiner raises objections, we prepare and file the response within the deadline.
Allowed marks are published in the official e-Gazette for opposition. We track the window and tell you immediately if anything is filed against you.
Once the opposition period passes and the requirements are met, the certificate is issued. We turn over the original along with the full file.
A clean application with no objections and no opposition generally reaches registration in six to twelve months. Office actions, third party opposition, or a crowded class can extend that. We give you a status update at every stage rather than leaving you to check the gazette yourself.
An office action, a third party opposition, or a class already crowded with similar marks. Each adds weeks to months. We tell you which one you are in and what it changes, rather than letting the file go quiet.
A registered mark in the Philippines has to be maintained through Declarations of Actual Use. Miss one and the mark is removed from the register, with no notice sent beforehand.
Filed within three years of your application filing date.
Filed within one year of the fifth anniversary of registration.
Filed within one year of each renewal. Registration runs for ten years and is renewable for further ten year terms.
Only the third year DAU can be extended, and only with a request filed and paid on time. Everything else is a hard deadline. We calendar all of it, prompt you well ahead of each date, prepare the declaration, and file it. Your deadlines sit in the same dashboard as the rest of your compliance.
A Declaration of Actual Use needs real proof that the mark is in commercial use in the Philippines: labels, packaging, signage, receipts, marketing material, screenshots of live listings. We tell you what will hold up at filing time, before you need it.
The right time to file is different depending on where you are. These are the four cases we see most.
File before you spend on packaging, signage, and paid acquisition. Rebranding after an objection costs more than the application.
Long use does not create ownership here. If you have been operating unregistered, the exposure grows with your visibility.
Applicants without a domicile or a real and effective commercial establishment in the Philippines need a local resident agent to receive notices. We act as yours.
Word mark, logo, tagline, sub brands. We map what needs separate applications and what can travel together.
Korp is a private firm providing business registration and compliance facilitation services. We are not a government agency and we are not affiliated with the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL). Government fees, timelines, and requirements are set by that office and may change.
Send us the mark and what you sell. We come back with a clearance read and the classes we'd recommend.
