Registered IP Rights

Presented byMichael Harrison

Harrison IP

Intellectual Property Rights

• Checking (others) rights• Getting (your) rights

• Enforcing (your) rights

Patent – How it worksRegistered Design – What it looks likeTrade Mark – What you call it

Intellectual Property Rights

COMPOST BIN

COMPOST BIN

Patents – panels each with male and female connecting elementsRegistered Designs – appearance of e.g. Fig 6 versionTrade Marks - ROTOCROP

Initial Consultation - £ NIL

Checking Rights - Searches

Patents: keywords: compost, bin, panel, sliding -

£200Registered Designs: official records - £75Trade Marks: GB/CTM - identical - £75

- clearance - £250

Total search costs = £ 500You can pay more = £ 500 x 10 = £5000

Initial Filings in UK

Patents £1000 file before public disclosure to £2000

Registered £300 can wait (one year’s grace)

Designs

Trade Marks £450 can wait (establish market)

Total filing costs = £2250Total costs to date = £2750

£500£1000 - £2000£3000 - £5000

£1500, but optional£2000-3000 per country

£500 - £1000 per country

Increase each year

Invention madeSearchesPriority UK filingCompletion PCT filingPublicationPreliminary examinationEntry into national/regional phase

Grant

Renewals

Australia Canada Europe Japan USA etc

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42 - 45

48 - 240

Months

Registered Design CostsGB £300EU £750US £2000 - £3000 (design

patent)Other £600 - £1200

Renewals GB – every 5 years - £250 to £575USA – noneOther – every 1-5 years - £100 to

£500

Trade Mark Registration CostsGB £550CTM £2500 (including GB)Other £1000

Renewals every 10 yearsGB – £350CTM – £2000

Controlling Costs

• Patent re-filing• TM and Reg Des filing delay• Territorial• Patents: Prosecution delay• Trade Marks: Additional classes

Period Patents Reg Des TMs TOTALFirst Year (Worldwide via GB) £ 1,700 £ 375 £ 700 £ 2,775

First 2.5 years (GB,EP,US,JP) £ 7,700 £ 4,500 £ 5,000 £ 17,200

First 5 years (GB,EP,US,JP) £ 35,000 £ 8,800 £ 5,000 £ 48,800

Patents – full lifetime

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1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21Year after filing

£1000s

CountriesGB, DE, ES,

FR, IE, IT NL, US. CA, CN,

JP, KR

GB – PCT – EP –

national

Filing and exam stages

Main renewal costs

Stopping infringers - patentsPatents Court £500,000Patents County Court £100,000 - £500,000

But costs of other party

Registered Designs and Trade Marks: less costly but still expensive