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Apply for protection against infringements of intellectual property rights on imports into and exports out of the UK.
For company directors, LLP members or people with significant control (PSCs) who are at serious risk and want to protect their personal information from the public.
£31 million of new funding to protect democratic processes and enhance security measures for elected representatives.
To protect your patent outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
To protect your intellectual property outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
What to do where a TPM prevents you from benefiting from a copyright exception.
Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP) is a joint Ministry of Defence (MOD) and industry initiative to improve the protection of the defence supply chain from the cyber threat.
A form of IP that extends the protection of patented active ingredients present in pharmaceutical or plant protection products.
The Data Protection Act (DPA) controls how personal information can be used and your rights to ask for information about yourself
Who gets copyright, types of work it covers, permitted use of copyright material, how to license and sell copyright and help resolving disputes
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
How to apply for UK protection of a traditional term for a wine product and get it added to the UK traditional terms register.
How UK museums and galleries can arrange to protect exhibits on loan from abroad from court-ordered seizure.
How to apply to protect a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI schemes.
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