PATENT TRADEMARK COPYRIGHT

20 years from filing date of the application 10 years (subject to indefinite renewals of 10 years Last during lifetime of author & 50 years after his death
each)
Right to patent - Arises from application date Term of moral During lifetime of author & in perpetuity after his
Operative act to acquire Filing date of application rights death
Effectivity of - On the date of publication of the grant of the trademark rights Rights under Coterminous with economic rights
patent patent in the IPO Gazette 193.2-193.4

Term of protection: Filing of DAU (1) within 3 years from filing of Term of protection:
Invention 20 years from filing date with payment of application Performances not 50 years from the end of the year in which
annuities incorporated in the performance took place
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(no renewal) (2) within 1 year from 5 recordings
Utility 7 years from filing date of application anniversary of registration date of Sound/ image & sound 50 years from the end of the year in which
model (no renewal) mark recordings & for the recording took place
Industrial 5 years from filing date Opposition to File within 30 days after publication performances
design (with 2 5-year term renewals upon payment of the referred to in Subsec 133.2 incorporated therein
fees) application Broadcasts 20 years from date of broadcast took place
Layout 10 years from commencement date of protection Renewal of Renewed for periods of 10 years at (extended term shall be applied only to old
design/ (no renewal) registration its expiration works with subsisting protection under prior
topography Request for Within 6 months before expiration law)
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*Layout should be filed within 2 years from its 1 renewal of registration
design of commercial exploitation anywhere in the world OR TERM OF PROTECTION OF COPYRIGHT
integrated Within 6 months after expiration on The term of protection subsequent to the death of the author shall run from the
circuits payment of additional fee prescribed date of his death/ of publication, but such terms shall always be deemed to
Cancellation (1) Within 5 years from date of begin on the 1st day of January of the year following the event which gave rise
Priority date (to - Filed within 12 months from date the of registration of mark to them (Sec 214)
avail) earliest foreign application was filed registration OR TYPE OF WORK TERM OF PROTECTION
- Certified copy of foreign application with (2) Any time Original and derivative works, as During the life of the author & for 50
English translation is filed within 6 months a) If the registered mark well as posthumous works years after his death
from date of filing in Philippines becomes the generic name Works of joint authorship Economic rights shall be protected
for the goods/ services, or a during the life of the last surviving
Person (other - Within 3 months after decision has become author and for 50 years after his death
portion thereof, for which it is
than applicant) final Published Anonymous/ 50 years from the date on which the
registered
is declared by pseudonymous works work was 1st lawfully published
b) If the mark has been
final court order (prosecute app, file new app, request app to abandoned If the author’s identity is revealed/ is no
as having the be refused, seek cancellation) c) If its registration was longer in doubt before the 50 year
right to patent obtained fraudulently/ period, the provisions on original &
Limitation - Within 4 years from the commission of acts contrary to the provisions of derivative works, as well as works of
(Cause of complained of the IPC joint authorship, shall apply.
action, Sec 46) d) If the registered mark is Unpublished Anonymous/ 50 years counted from the making of
Time to file - Filed within 1 year from date of publication being used by, or with the pseudonymous works the work
action in court (in accordance with Sec 44, 45 respectively) permission of, the registrant Work of an applied art of an artistic 25 years from the time of the making
(Sec 67, 68) so as to misrepresent the creation with utilitarian functions/
incorporated in a useful article whether
Civil action for - Filed within 4 years from commission of source of the goods/ services made by hand/ produced on an
infringement acts on/ in connection with which industrial scale
the mark is used Photographic works 50 years from publication of the work
Criminal action - Filed within 3 years from commission of e) Non-use of the mark within and,
for infringement crime the Philippines, without if unpublished, 50 years from the
legitimate reason, for an making
uninterrupted period of 3 Audio-visual works including 50 years from date of publication and,
years those produced by process if unpublished, from the date of making
analogous to photography/ any
process for making audio-visual
recordings

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