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Intellectual Property Office corporate priorities 2022 to 2023

This plan outlines our main activities and targets as we help make the UK as an the most innovative and creative country in the world.

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IP matters! It touches everything that makes life more enjoyable, safer, easier and prosperous. It is at the heart of the UK’s ambition to be the most innovative and creative country in the world.

We have one of the best IP systems in the world and we want to be the best IP Office.

To achieve these ambitions our strategy sets out our three goals.

To deliver excellent IP services our priorities are to:

  • deliver our core IP rights services achieving our customer service standards
  • deliver our Transformation programme achieving our phase one milestones

To create a world leading IP environment our priorities are to:

  • develop the IP Framework to keep pace with the societal changes in technology, the environment, culture and the economy
  • increasing IP’s Impact through Awareness and Education
  • embed the approach set out in our new Counter-Infringement Strategy, delivering our strategic threat assessment and developing our intelligence centre of excellence
  • strengthen our International approach by maintaining and developing high IP standards through free trade agreements, reforming our European engagement and improving and promoting our international IP business support service

To make the IPO a brilliant place to work, our priorities are to:

  • enable our people to thrive, ensuring we can deliver today and are ready for future challenges
  • agree a Carbon Net Zero Strategy for IPO and deliver year one commitments

Underpinning our priorities are the principles that in everything we do we will:

  • support our people
  • focus on customers
  • strive for efficiency
Published 12 May 2022