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Check the patents journal to find UK-registered patents granted, published and filed
How to tax a beneficial loan arrangement for a director or employee.
How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Find out the rules from 1 January 2018 if you promote or use arrangements that are meant to give someone a VAT or other indirect tax saving or a tax deferral.
Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
What to do if you think you've spotted a scam pretending to be from Companies House, and examples of scam emails, letters and telephone calls.
Form A64A: Application to receive information from court records about a parental order.
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
A collection of guidance about how to protect and enforce your intellectual property. Including information on infringement, counterfeiting and piracy.
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
A copyright notice is a concise note published by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) providing basic copyright guidance.
Like other forms of property, you can buy, sell and license IP, it is important you understand the value your trade mark, patent or design.
Be aware of misleading invoices offering services to help protect your IP rights in return for a fee.
This guidance summarises the types of defects to which the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 apply.
How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have used patents to protect their ideas and help them grow.
Find out what trade barriers are and how they may affect you when exporting goods or services.
How to work out the customs value if transactions are between branch offices or include inter-company transfers and accounting if you're an importer or clearing agent.
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