WIPO trademark filing: The risk of receiving office action per country
Filing a trademark application through the WIPO Madrid System is often seen as the simple way to protect a brand across dozens of countries at once. The main issue, however, lies in what happens after filing: each country's IP office still runs its own examination, and a large share of applications end up receiving an office action (OA). To find out how real that risk actually is, we reviewed a full quarter of WIPO applications and tracked every office action issued against them.
