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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.
Affidavit of marital status for British nationals in Vietnam.
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.
How the protected online filing (PROOF) scheme can help you prevent fraudulent changes to your company.
Use this form to give notice of a vacation of office when administrator ceases to be qualified to act.
Tell Companies House of a vacation of office when an administrator ceases to be qualified to act, for a company registered in Scotland.
A collection of guidance about how to protect and enforce your intellectual property. Including information on infringement, counterfeiting and piracy.
To protect your trade mark outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
How to get data and documents held by the Coal Authority.
How to buy or acquire the assets of a dissolved company - how and when you can claim money or property, who to contact and the forms you need
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...
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have used copyright protection to create value from their ideas.
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
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in Kazakhstan.
Forms AP1, FR1 and DS2: guidance on when evidence of identity must be lodged in support of an application for registration.
Find out what trade barriers are and how they may affect you when exporting goods or services.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
How to remove an overseas entity's registration from the Register of Overseas Entities.
How to protect your company from scams and fraud and how to report it.
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