{"id":117,"date":"2017-11-16T10:26:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T10:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/affa.co.id\/?p=117"},"modified":"2017-11-16T10:26:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T10:26:24","slug":"the-philippines-declarations-of-actual-use-for-renewals-of-trademark-registrations-within-1-year-from-the-renewal-date-for-trademarks-for-renewals-2017-onwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affa.co.id\/bhs\/2017\/11\/16\/the-philippines-declarations-of-actual-use-for-renewals-of-trademark-registrations-within-1-year-from-the-renewal-date-for-trademarks-for-renewals-2017-onwards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philippines: Declarations of Actual Use for Renewals of Trademark Registrations within 1 year from the Renewal Date for Trademarks for Renewals 2017 Onwards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines now requires Declarations of Actual Use for Renewals of Trademark Registrations within 1 year from the Renewal Date. This new requirement only applies to registered marks whose renewal dates fall on 2017 onwards, even if the request for renewal is filed earlier.\u00a0This is based on:<\/p>\n

IPOPHL MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO.\u00a0<\/strong>17 – 0 10\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Subject: RULES AND REGULATIONS ON TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS, TRADE NAMES AND MARKED OR STAMPED CONTAINERS OF 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRULE 204.\u00a0Period\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0File Declaration of Actual Use.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>–\u00a0The Office will not require any proof of use in commerce upon filing of an application.\u00a0All applicants or registrants shall file a Declaration of Actual Use (DAU) of the mark with evidence to that effect and upon payment of the prescribed fee\u00a0on the following periods:<\/p>\n

(a) \u00a0Within three (3) years from the filing date of the application;<\/p>\n

(b) \u00a0Within one (1) year from the fifth anniversary of the registration;<\/p>\n

(c) Within one (1) year from date of renewal;<\/strong><\/p>\n

(d) Within one (1) year from the fifth anniversary of each renewal;<\/p>\n

Otherwise,\u00a0the application shall be refused registration or the registered mark shall be removed from the Register by the Director.<\/p>\n

xxx<\/strong><\/p>\n

RULE 206.\u00a0Renewal DAU.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>– For registered marks due for renewal on 01 January 2017 onwards,\u00a0regardless of the filing date of the Request for Renewal,\u00a0submission of DAU referred to in Rule 204 (c) is required for purposes of registration maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should you require further clarification, please contact emirsyah.dinar@affa.co.id for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines now requires Declarations of Actual Use for Renewals of Trademark Registrations within 1 year from the Renewal Date. This new requirement only applies to registered marks whose renewal dates fall on 2017 onwards, even if the request for renewal is filed earlier.\u00a0This is based on: IPOPHL MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO.\u00a017 – 0 10\u00a0 Subject: RULES AND REGULATIONS ON TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS, TRADE NAMES AND MARKED OR STAMPED CONTAINERS OF 2017 \u201cRULE 204.\u00a0Period\u00a0to\u00a0File Declaration of Actual Use.\u00a0–\u00a0The Office will not require any proof of use in commerce upon filing of an application.\u00a0All applicants or registrants shall file a Declaration of Actual Use (DAU) of the mark with evidence to that effect and upon payment of the prescribed fee\u00a0on the following periods: (a) \u00a0Within three (3) years from the filing date of the application; (b) \u00a0Within one (1) year from the fifth anniversary of the registration; (c) Within one (1) year from date of renewal; (d) Within one (1) year from the fifth anniversary of each renewal; Otherwise,\u00a0the application shall be refused registration or the registered mark shall be removed from the Register by the Director. xxx RULE 206.\u00a0Renewal DAU.\u00a0– For registered marks due for renewal on 01 January 2017 onwards,\u00a0regardless of the filing date of the Request for Renewal,\u00a0submission of DAU referred to in Rule 204 (c) is required for purposes of registration maintenance.\u201d Should you require further clarification, please contact emirsyah.dinar@affa.co.id for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,278,279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-event","category-trademark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affa.co.id\/bhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affa.co.id\/bhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affa.co.id\/bhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affa.co.id\/bhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affa.co.id\/bhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/affa.co.id\/bhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affa.co.id\/bhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affa.co.id\/bhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affa.co.id\/bhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}