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Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
Official information for UK nationals living in or moving to Belarus, including guidance on residency, passports and healthcare.
Guidance for industry on flexible approaches to regulation we are taking during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.
Find details of recent trade mark applications or amendments by searching the journal
Find data and analysis from Census 2021 and earlier censuses.
Learn how to check if your website or mobile app is accessible.
We handle shipping and maritime disputes. Cases that we hear include: collisions between ships disputes over the transport of cargo salvage of a ship, cargo or crew disputes over goods supplied to a ship disputes over mortgages and other security...
Examples of unacceptable trade marks around protected emblems, internet domain names and your company name.
Apply to the Public Trustee to find out if a tenancy has been ended after a tenant's death
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fee structure.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Guidance on the decentralised and mutual recognition reliance procedure (MRDCRP) for marketing authorisation applications including information on how to apply.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in Peru.
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...
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
The CMA has accepted commitments offered by Google that address the CMA’s competition concerns resulting from investigating Google’s proposals to remove third-party cookies and other functionalities from its Chrome browser.
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