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Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.
How to apply to protect a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI schemes.
How to apply to protect a wine name or aromatised wine name under the UK GI schemes and how to use a traditional term to describe a wine product.
It is against the law to discriminate against anyone because of their sex, religion, disability or certain other personal characteristics ('protected characteristics')
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
How UK museums and galleries can arrange to protect exhibits on loan from abroad from court-ordered seizure.
Rules on using a geographical indication (GI) scheme logo to mark a registered protected food or drink name.
Make sure that domains that do not send email cannot be used for spoofing.
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of wine and aromatised wine in the UK.
Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period.
How to apply for UK protection of a traditional term for a wine product and get it added to the UK traditional terms register.
International trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol will no longer enjoy protection in the UK after 1 January 2021.
To protect your patent outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Apply for protected designation of origin (PDO) or protected geographical indication (PGI) of a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI scheme.
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of a food, drink or agricultural product in Great Britain.
When a business changes owner, employees could be protected under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE) - types of transfers, your rights, contracts, redundancy, where to get help
How UK persons’ trading interests are protected and when authorisations must be obtained to trade with countries subject to specific extraterritorial laws.
What you need to do if your member has protected their allowances and this entitles them to both a higher lump sum allowance and lump sum death benefit allowance.
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