Intellectual property

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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
   • 24 April 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
2. How to classify trade marks
   • Detailed guide
   • 26 June 2017
   • Intellectual Property Office
3. Non-disclosure agreements
   • Guidance
   • 12 March 2015
   • Intellectual Property Office
4. Patent forms and fees
   • Guidance
   • 30 May 2018
   • Intellectual Property Office
5. Exceptions to copyright
   • Detailed guide
   • 5 August 2019
   • Intellectual Property Office

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News and communications

2 July 2020 — News story

Alterations to our services - tribunals and hearings

Intellectual Property Office

1. Coronavirus important update on IPO services
   • 1 July 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • News story
2. Temporary fee changes
   • 1 July 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • News story
3. 1 July 2020: Update to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fees
   • 30 June 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • News story
4. Alterations to services - trade marks and designs
   • 26 June 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Facts and figures: patent, trade mark, design and hearing data 2019
   • 2 June 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Official statistics
2. Intellectual Property Office – Research at IPO
   • 29 April 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Research
3. IP filing habits of UK Higher Education Institutions
   • 29 April 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Research
4. AI-assisted patent prior art searching – feasibility study
   • 22 April 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Research
5. Online copyright infringement tracker survey (9th Wave)
   • 24 February 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Supplementary protection certificate waiver: no deal legislation
   • 5 July 2019
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Closed consultation
   • Date closed 09 August 2019
2. UK implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty
   • 10 September 2018
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 19 June 2018
3. Implementation of the Trade Mark Directive 2015
   • 29 June 2018
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 16 April 2018
4. Draft regulations concerning trade secrets
   • 21 May 2018
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 16 March 2018
5. Collective rights management in the UK
   • 29 January 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Intellectual Property Office Corporate Plan 2020 to 2021
   • 9 July 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Corporate report
2. Register of Board Members' Interests
   • 29 June 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Transparency
3. IPO customer service standards
   • 7 April 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Transparency
4. IPO people survey results 2019
   • 26 March 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Transparency
5. IPO payments: 2020
   • 26 March 2020
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Intellectual Property Office
2. Government Digital Service
3. Copyright Tribunal
4. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
5. Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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1. Company Names Tribunal
2. Companies House
3. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
4. HM Revenue & Customs
5. Ministry of Defence

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1. Copyright
2. Designs
3. Patents
4. Trade marks