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A collection of guidance about how to protect and enforce your intellectual property. Including information on infringement, counterfeiting and piracy.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your Intellectual Property (IP) rights in South Korea.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Supplementary protection certificate forms are available in paper format.
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.
Find out what makes a person an enabler of tax avoidance, and what to do about legally privileged communications.
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 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 copyright protection to create value from their ideas.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
This collection brings together arrangements the UK has made with Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies for the sharing of beneficial ownership information.
Find out if a claim of ownership by adverse possession can be made on common land and town or village greens, what effect it will have on the land and whether a claim can be opposed.
Information for British citizens moving to or living in China, including guidance on residency, healthcare and travel.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
Watch our caseworkers' top tips to make sure your applications are complete and correct. Avoid more than 20 common requisition points.
Affidavit of marital status for British nationals in Vietnam.
What you need to know and do to export or import objects of cultural interest.
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