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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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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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Search for a patent
Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents
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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
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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
News and communications
Research and statistics
- [TS No.13/2018] Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs
- Survey of innovation and patent use
- Online copyright infringement tracker survey (8th Wave)
- International comparison of approaches to online copyright enforcement
- UK plant breeding sector and innovation
Policy papers and consultations
- Intellectual Property: Tangle Teezer
- Intellectual Property: These Please
- Intellectual Property: Brompton
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- IPO customer service standards
- IPO payments: 2018
- Intellectual Property Office: structure chart
- IPO: patent data
- IPO gender pay gap