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What happens when you opt to tax (charge VAT on) land and buildings, when you need permission and when to notify HMRC about your decision.
Carry out checks on your overseas customers and find out what records you’ll need to keep if you’re approved for the Fulfilment House Due Diligence Scheme.
How to check that a laboratory is allowed to buy ozone-depleting substances (ODS).
How long you can stay in the EU or Schengen area without a visa, when you travel from the UK.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
A collection of guidance explaining different types of intellectual property. Including tools and case studies about protecting IP in your business.
This guidance summarises the types of defects to which the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 apply.
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
Apply to manufacture Extemporaneous preparations, Autogenous vaccines, authorisations for Equine Stem Cell Centre (ESCCA) or Non-Food Animal Blood Bank (NFABBA).
Apply for a Skilled Worker visa (formerly a Tier 2 General work visa) if you’ve been offered a skilled job with a UK employer - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children, taking on additional...
Imposing safeguard measures for imports of certain steel products.
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.
Guidance on working securely with or for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
How to get data and documents held by the Coal Authority.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
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...
The information principal accountable persons must submit when applying for a building assessment certificate from the Building Safety Regulator.
A copyright notice is a concise note published by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) providing basic copyright guidance.
Be aware of misleading invoices offering services to help protect your IP rights in return for a fee.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have used copyright protection to create value from their ideas.
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