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People lose rights by filing the wrong kind, or by publishing before they file. Say what you are protecting and this names the class of right that normally fits, outlines what a filing involves, and points at the official offices. No fee schedules and no deadlines are embedded — both change, and both are on the offices’ own sites. Orientation, not legal advice.
The official offices
WIPO — the World Intellectual Property Organization, which administers the international filing systems used to seek protection in many countries from one application.
USPTO — the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
EUIPO — the European Union Intellectual Property Office, for EU-wide trade marks and designs.
Copyright generally arises automatically on creation in most countries; where a national registry exists it is usually optional and evidentiary rather than constitutive.
Honest limits
No fees, no deadlines, no term lengths are embedded here. All three change, all three differ by country and route, and all three are published by the offices above. A number cached on this page would eventually cost someone a right.
Prior public disclosure can be fatal to some rights and harmless to others, and the rules differ sharply by country. If you have already published, say so to an attorney immediately rather than assuming the door is closed or open.
These categories overlap in practice. A single product can carry several kinds of right at once, and choosing one does not exclude the others.
Not legal advice. Drafting a specification or a trade mark specification badly is expensive and often unfixable. Use a qualified attorney or agent for anything you care about.
Sources
Named and linked, not mirrored: WIPO · IP India · USPTO · EUIPO. No fee schedule, deadline, term length or procedural rule is embedded or fetched — the offices publish their own and those govern.