Intellectual property
Services
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Search for a trade mark
Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
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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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Search for a patent
Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents
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Find a registered design
Find registered designs in the UK
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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
Guidance and regulation
- Trade mark forms and fees
- Search UK trade mark classes
- How to classify trade marks
- Exceptions to copyright
- Non-disclosure agreements
News and communications
Research and statistics
- Use of Intellectual Property rights across UK industries
- Monthly statistics: Patents, trade marks and designs: April 2022
- Intellectual Property Office – Research at IPO
- IPO annual research and evaluation priorities 2022/23
- Monthly statistics: Patents, trade marks and designs: March 2022
Policy papers and consultations
- Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents
- Common summary of user proposals for patent harmonisation
- Section 72 CDPA post implementation review: Call for views
- Reviewing the designs framework: Call for views
- UK’s future exhaustion of intellectual property rights regime
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- IPO customer service standards
- IPO prompt supplier payments
- IPO payments: 2022
- Intellectual Property Office: structure chart
- Intellectual Property Office corporate priorities 2022 to 2023