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How to conform with the legal requirements for placing medical devices on the market.
How to use a cost effectiveness analysis to evaluate your digital health product.
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.
Find the address, contact details and opening times of the UK visa application centre for your country.
Getting a faster decision on a visa or settlement application; priority service, super priority service; waiting times; how to check if you're eligible
Renew and pay for a GB or European patent online - when renewal is due, fees, renew by post or phone instead
Check how quickly you’ll receive a decision on your UK visa application if you are applying from outside the UK.
Check how much your visa application costs in the country you’re in
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
To protect your patent outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) provides lists of English-speaking lawyers abroad to help British nationals find the legal support they need.
Pharmacovigilance system requirements
Advice on writing clear notices and maximising replies to your FSNs.
Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers
Apply for a certificate to confirm that you only need to pay UK National Insurance contributions if you're a self-employed individual working temporarily in an EU country, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
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.
Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
Information for entertainers and musicians, from non-visa national countries, such as EU Member States and the US, visiting the UK for performance and work.
The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK government and for England and Wales. It is the guardian of some of our most iconic national documents, dating back over 1,000 years. The National Archives is a...
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