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Monitor the progress of a patent application through search reports, open to the public inspection files, and caveats.
Goods that are controlled and how to get licences for them, the UK Strategic Export Control Lists, dealing with the Export Control Organisation (ECO).
How to get fast-track approval of medical devices during COVID-19.
You must include the appropriate legal basis for your application when you apply to MHRA for a marketing authorisation.
How to use A/B testing to evaluate your digital health product.
You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.
Guidance for industry on flexible approaches to regulation we are taking during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Your chances of obtaining a useful patent are significantly greater if you use an attorney. A patent specification is a legal document and requires specialist skills to draft properly.
Check the tariff classification for flavour pods.
Find details of recent trade mark applications or amendments by searching the journal
The Traffic Commissioner for London and the South East's written decision for Hi-Stanford Scaffolding Ltd (OK2042641)
Examples of unacceptable trade marks around protected emblems, internet domain names and your company name.
Check someone's driving record - vehicles they can drive, penalty points and disqualifications
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines.
Find registered designs in the UK
Be aware of misleading invoices offering services to help protect your IP rights in return for a fee.
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.
How to check that a laboratory is allowed to buy ozone-depleting substances (ODS).
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