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4. Apply to register a trade mark

   Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol

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Guidance and regulation

1. Alcohol licensing
   • Detailed guide
   • 24 May 2018
   • Home Office
2. Package holidays: your consumer rights after Brexit
   • Guidance
   • 8 January 2019
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
3. Trade mark forms and fees
   • Guidance
   • 14 January 2019
   • Intellectual Property Office
4. Non-disclosure agreements
   • Guidance
   • 12 March 2015
   • Intellectual Property Office
5. Gas meter readings and bill calculation
   • Detailed guide
   • 10 June 2014
   • Office for Product Safety and Standards

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News and communications

18 January 2019 — Cma case

Pharmaceutical sector: suspected anti-competitive agreements and conduct

Competition and Markets Authority

1. TopCashback / Quidco merger inquiry
   • 18 January 2019
   • Competition and Markets Authority
   • Cma case
2. Trade marks: delays to notification emails
   • 17 January 2019
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • News story
3. Secondary ticketing websites
   • 17 January 2019
   • Competition and Markets Authority
   • Cma case
4. Open letter to event organisers
   • 17 January 2019
   • Competition and Markets Authority
   • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

1. UK REACH: RPC Opinion
   • 10 January 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Regulatory Policy Committee
   • Research
2. Natural England's NQRP summary: RPC Opinion
   • 4 January 2019
   • Natural England and Regulatory Policy Committee
   • Research
3. APHA non-qualifying regulatory provision summary: RPC Opinion
   • 4 January 2019
   • Regulatory Policy Committee and Animal and Plant Health Agency
   • Research
4. Restriction of Hazardous Substances Regulations 2012: RPC Opinion
   • 4 January 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Regulatory Policy Committee
   • Research
5. VMD’s non-qualifying regulatory provision summary: RPC Opinion
   • 4 January 2019
   • Veterinary Medicines Directorate and Regulatory Policy Committee
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Draft guidance on requests for internal documents in merger investigations
   • 15 January 2019
   • Competition and Markets Authority
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 24 April 2018
2. Proposed review of the Energy Market Investigation Order 2016
   • 21 December 2018
   • Competition and Markets Authority
   • Closed consultation
   • Date closed 18 January 2019
3. Assessing and scoring environmental permit compliance
   • 14 January 2019
   • Environment Agency
   • Policy paper
4. Consumer prepayments on retailer insolvency: government response to the Law Commission report
   • 27 December 2018
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Policy paper
5. Energy network codes review
   • 18 December 2018
   • Ofgem and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. IPO payments: 2018
   • 17 January 2019
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Transparency
2. IPO customer service standards
   • 4 January 2019
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Transparency
3. Product safety: market surveillance, plans for 2018 to 2019
   • 20 December 2018
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Office for Product Safety and Standards
   • Corporate report
4. IPO gender pay gap 2018
   • 19 December 2018
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Transparency
5. CMA board meeting minutes: 20 November 2018
   • 19 December 2018
   • Competition and Markets Authority
   • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Intellectual Property Office
2. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
3. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
4. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
5. Home Office

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1. Office for Product Safety & Standards
2. Department for Work & Pensions
3. Ministry of Justice
4. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. Groceries Code Adjudicator
6. HM Treasury
7. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
8. Pubs Code Adjudicator
9. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
10. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
11. Cabinet Office
12. Department of Health & Social Care
13. Department for Transport
14. HM Revenue & Customs
15. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
16. Department for International Trade
17. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
18. UK Export Finance
19. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
20. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
21. Ministry of Defence
22. Company Names Tribunal
23. Crown Commercial Service
24. Government Actuary's Department
25. Government Equalities Office
26. Department for Education
27. The Insolvency Service
28. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
29. Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
30. Northern Ireland Office
31. Department for International Development
32. Government Office for Science
33. Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
34. HM Passport Office
35. Marine Management Organisation
36. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
37. Public Health England
38. Animal & Plant Health Agency
39. Attorney General's Office
40. Bona Vacantia
41. Building Regulations Advisory Committee
42. Central Arbitration Committee
43. CFRA
44. Civil Procedure Rule Committee
45. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
46. Companies House
47. Copyright Tribunal
48. Department for Exiting the European Union
49. Immigration Enforcement
50. Maritime & Coastguard Agency
51. Office for Civil Society
52. Office of the Public Guardian
53. Small Business Commissioner
54. Stabilisation Unit
55. Coal Authority
56. Tribunal Procedure Committee
57. UK Atomic Energy Authority
58. Veterinary Medicines Directorate

1. Competition and Markets Authority
2. Regulatory Policy Committee
3. Environment Agency
4. British Hallmarking Council
5. Government Chemist
6. Marine Accident Investigation Branch
7. Innovate UK
8. Military Aviation Authority
9. Export Control Joint Unit
10. Ofqual
11. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
12. Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
13. Social Security Advisory Committee
14. UK Space Agency
15. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
16. Council for Science and Technology
17. Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate
18. Highways England
19. HM Land Registry
20. Natural England
21. Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
22. Ofsted
23. Single Source Regulations Office
24. UK Hydrographic Office