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Affidavit of Marital Status for British nationals
How to use a case-control study to evaluate your digital health product.
Apply for a higher education course, track your application and accept or reject your offers.
Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents
How to object to the registration of a lasting or enduring power of attorney - including forms and fees
Using metadata to make it easier to catalogue, validate, reuse and share your data.
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
The civil procedure rules govern the way civil cases are managed, and set out the processes of the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the County Court.
Apply for a Senior or Specialist Worker visa to work for your employer’s UK branch - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
The family procedure rules are a single set of rules governing the practice and procedure in family proceedings in the high court, county courts and magistrates' courts.
This guidance is an introduction to the Open Document Format (ODF) standard and how you can select ODF-compliant solutions.
Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers
Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
Use this form to file a translation in connection with a European patent or a European patent application
How to self-upload evidence when making an application to come to or stay in the UK.
Guidance for organisations involved in any aspect of the pharmaceutical lifecycle or GLP studies regulated by MHRA, covering the approval of paper documents when working from home
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
If you already have the right or have probate (as an executor or administrator) you can start dealing with the estate. You may need to apply for the right to deal with the estate of the person who's died (also...
Official information for UK nationals living in or moving to Belarus, including guidance on residency, passports and healthcare.
A suite of template legal documents to support the development of mutuals.
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