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Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
Check how much your visa application costs in the country you’re in
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The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trade marks and copyright. IPO is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology , supported...
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
How to object to the registration of a lasting or enduring power of attorney - including forms and fees
Find out about the changes if you are exporting personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus pandemic.
Apply for a Secondment Worker visa to work for a UK organisation as part of a high-value contract - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
Guidance on how to prove someone’s identity or give them access to your service or organisation.
Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
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.
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
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...
Overview about agreements, conventions and treaties which impact on the UK's strategic export control policy and legislation.
How someone in Poland can get documents prepared, witnessed or certified, take an oath of British citizenship and obtain informative notes.
Monitor the progress of a patent application through search reports, open to the public inspection files, and caveats.
Find schemes that have told HMRC they meet the conditions to be a recognised overseas pension scheme (ROPS).
Guidance for industry on flexible approaches to regulation we are taking during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The process of taking or giving evidence from abroad for UK court cases and rules on which countries allow it.
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