Registration is the easy part here. Keeping the registration alive is where foreign owners lose marks, and it is entirely avoidable.
Utility models register without substantive examination in a few months. Designs follow the same route, which makes the Philippines unusually quick for product protection.
Use declarations fall due at set intervals through the life of the mark. Miss one and the registration is removed — this is the biggest single cause of lost Philippine rights we see.
The mark has to appear on the goods or services as actually sold in the Philippines. Mockups are not evidence.
Every mark we handle here goes into a watch list with its DAU dates, and we chase you for the evidence.
Watching the register catches conflicts before they become enforcement problems.