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How we are going to deliver our mission to grow the UK economy by providing an IP system that encourages investment in creativity and innovation.

• Updated: 2 May 2024

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fee structure changed on 1 April 2024.

• Updated: 1 April 2024

Greater access to IP-backed finance could help firms, especially small and medium enterprise (SMEs), leverage their IP to scale and grow.

• Updated: 19 March 2024

The campaign supports the IPO's commitments to raise public understanding, and ultimately respect, for IP rights.

• Updated: 28 February 2024

Natasha Chick, Divisional Director of the One IPO Transformation Programme, gives an important update on where we are with the programme and what’s next.

• Updated: 25 January 2024

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fee structure changed on 1 January 2024.

• Updated: 1 January 2024

The Intellectual Property Office wants to hear from businesses by 2 February 2024 about intellectual property’s role in helping them scale and grow.

• Updated: 20 November 2023

Britain's brightest young inventors shine as Intellectual Property Office and Aardman announce winners of Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Ideas Competition 2023.

• Updated: 9 November 2023

If you work in the music industry and handle metadata, we want to hear from you by 30 November 2023.

• Updated: 3 November 2023

Responses to the consultation will inform the options for implementation of the Treaty.

• Updated: 14 September 2023

The tool is a major advance in how the IPO performs patent searches.

• Updated: 4 September 2023

Requirements that come into effect from 1 January 2024

• Updated: 1 September 2023

The UK Government has launched a second consultation on proposed changes to allow the Intellectual Property Office to deliver better digital services.

• Updated: 22 August 2023

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published its Analysis Priorities for 2023/24.

• Updated: 8 August 2023

The government has published its response to the transformation consultation which ran between 3 November 2022 and 6 January 2023.

• Updated: 1 August 2023

The IPO has published a summary of responses to the questionnaire for SME, small-cap and mid-cap businesses on Standard Essential Patents.

• Updated: 5 July 2023

The new service will see the process of applying for a patent dramatically transformed over the next 12 months.

• Updated: 17 May 2023

Inventive youngsters at Cosby Primary School have learnt all about bees and biodiversity after winning a prestigious national competition.

• Updated: 11 April 2023

As of 12 April, the process for paying for an Intellectual Property Office (IPO) paper form by debit or credit card is changing.

• Updated: 30 March 2023

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has agreed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today.

• Updated: 30 March 2023