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Overview of the Civil Service Jobs vX system for recruiters, including search and table layouts.
Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents
The tool is a major advance in how the IPO performs patent searches.
The voluntary code of conduct for executive search firms lays out steps for search firms to follow across the search process.
Form OS2: official search with priority by a purchaser against part of the land in a registered title or pending first registration application.
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
This code of conduct recognises the best recruitment practice that has led to measurable success in increasing gender equality in boardrooms.
Form OS1: official search with priority by a purchaser against the whole of a registered title or pending first registration application.
Get personalised careers advice and information. Take a skills assessment, explore career profiles, find a course, and get advice on CVs, cover letters and job interviews.
How Business e-services customers can apply for an official search of whole with priority through the portal.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform allows people to search user generated content.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Search a list of regulated professions to find out what qualifications or experience they require. Find contact details for regulators of those professions.
Find out who can search against the name of an owner of land or registered mortgages and how to do it (practice guide 74).
How Business e-services customers can apply for an official search of part with priority through the portal.
Finding the right advice and advisor is the first step in making the best decisions for your invention or business.
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
How to make an official search and information on their purpose and effect (practice guide 12).
How Business e-services customers can withdraw an official search with priority lodged by their organisation through the portal.
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