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Form A64A: Application to receive information from court records about a parental order.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Forms AP1, FR1 and DS2: guidance on when evidence of identity must be lodged in support of an application for registration.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in Peru.
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
How to work out the VAT on building work and materials if you're a contractor, subcontractor or developer.
We are a specialist list set up to deal with: claims and appeals concerning patents (including supplementary protection certificates), registered designs, copyright issues, trade marks, semiconductor topography rights and plant varieties; claims and appeals concerning the and other intellectual property...
How to remove your home address from the public register if you’ve used it as a service address for correspondence, or a shareholder's address. This also applies to LLPs and LLP members.
This guidance summarises the types of defects to which the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 apply.
Be aware of misleading invoices offering services to help protect your IP rights in return for a fee.
To protect your trade mark outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
A copyright notice is a concise note published by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) providing basic copyright guidance.
Imposing safeguard measures for imports of certain steel products.
If someone dies without a will or known family, their ownerless property (bona vacantia) goes to the crown - check if you're an entitled relative, search for an estate, refer or claim on an estate
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have used copyright protection to create value from their ideas.
How the protected online filing (PROOF) scheme can help you prevent fraudulent changes to your company.
Claim relief on import duty and VAT when importing miscellaneous documents and related articles into the UK.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
Affidavit of marital status for British nationals in Vietnam.
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