Find out the reason for hiring local agents and in what jurisdictions it is required
Some jurisdictions require a local agent to represent patent owners.
These agents essentially represent you, the patent owners, in the patent ownership capacity with the Patent Office. When this representation requirement is present, we engage a local agent.
The countries that require a local agent are:
| AE: United Arab Emirates |
| AL: Albania |
| AM: Armenia |
| AP: African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) |
| AR: Argentina |
| AZ: Azerbaijan |
| BA: Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| BD: Bangladesh |
| BH: Bahrain |
| BR: Brazil |
| BY: Belarus |
| CD: Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| CF: Central African Republic |
| CL: Chile |
| CM: Cameroon |
| CN: China |
| CO: Colombia |
| CY: Cyprus |
| EA: Eurasian Patent Organisation (EAPO) |
| EG: Egypt |
| GC: Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) |
| GE: Georgia |
| HK: Hong Kong |
| ID: Indonesia |
| IN: India |
| JP: Japan |
| KE: Kenya |
| KG: Kyrgyzstan |
| KH: Cambodia |
| KR: Republic of Korea |
| KW: Kuwait |
| KZ: Kazakhstan |
| LB: Lebanon |
| LK: Sri Lanka |
| LS: Lesotho |
| MA: Morocco |
| MD: Republic of Moldova |
| ME: Montenegro |
| MK: North Macedonia |
| MO: Macao |
| MW: Malawi |
| MX: Mexico |
| MY: Malaysia |
| MZ: Mozambique |
| OA: African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) |
| OM: Oman |
| PH: Philippines |
| PK: Pakistan |
| PL: Poland |
| QA: Qatar |
| RO: Romania |
| RS: Serbia |
| RU: Russia |
| SA: Saudi Arabia |
| SG: Singapore |
| SZ: Swaziland |
| TH: Thailand |
| TJ: Tajikistan |
| TM: Turkmenistan |
| TN: Tunisia |
| TR: Turkey |
| TW: Taiwan, Province of China |
| UA: Ukraine |
| VN: Viet Nam |
| ZA: South Africa |
In many countries around the world, renewing patents with local agents is not required. We observe that many IP law firms, patent attorneys or IP renewal providers choose to hire local agents despite that it's not required. With our services, you can eliminate the local agent costs, as we digitalize most of our processes and we only use local agents in countries where it's absolutely necessary.
This list is created as of Mar 2023 - we strive to keep this updated as often as we can!
