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Services

  1. Search for a trade mark

    Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered

  2. 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

  3. Search for a patent

    Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents

  4. Intellectual property and your work

    What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work

  5. How copyright protects your work

    Who gets copyright, types of work it covers, permitted use of copyright material, how to license and sell copyright and help resolving disputes

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Trade mark forms and fees
    • Guidance
    • Intellectual Property Office
  2. Non-disclosure agreements
    • Guidance
    • Intellectual Property Office
  3. Exceptions to copyright
    • Detailed guide
    • Intellectual Property Office
  4. Patent forms and fees
    • Guidance
    • Intellectual Property Office
  5. Copyright notice: digital images, photographs and the internet
    • Guidance
    • Intellectual Property Office
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News and communications

Decision

Designs hearing decision O/798/18

Intellectual Property Office

  1. Company Names Tribunal decision: Oracle Recruits Ltd
    • Company Names Tribunal
    • Decision
  2. Trade mark disputes: unpaid costs orders
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Decision
  3. UK IPO’s Tim Moss named as top 50 IP influencer
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • News story
  4. Designs hearing decision O/749/18
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Decision
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Research and statistics

  1. Research into designs infringement
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Research
  2. 3D printing and intellectual property futures
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Research
  3. Survey of innovation and patent use
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Research
  4. Online copyright infringement tracker survey (8th Wave)
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Research
  5. International comparison of approaches to online copyright enforcement
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. UK implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 19 June 2018
  2. Collective rights management in the UK
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Policy paper
  3. Intellectual Property: Tangle Teezer
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Case study
  4. Intellectual Property: These Please
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Case study
  5. Intellectual Property: Brompton
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Case study
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. IPO diversity and inclusion report for 2017-2018
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Corporate report
  2. IPO payments: 2018
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Transparency
  3. IPO customer service standards
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Transparency
  4. Intellectual Property Office: structure chart
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Transparency
  5. IPO: patent data
    • Intellectual Property Office
    • Transparency
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