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From Intellectual Property Office (IPO)
  • Search for a trade mark

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

  • Set up a limited company: step by step

    How to set up a limited company, appoint directors and shareholders or guarantors, and register for tax.

  • Intellectual Property Office

    The home of Intellectual Property Office on GOV.UK. The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trade marks and copy…

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  • Intellectual property: Trade marks

    Guidance on how to register, manage and enforce a trade mark. A trade mark protects your brand, for example the name of your product or service.

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  • Set up as a sole trader: step by step

    What you need to do if you set up as a sole trader - check your employment status, understand your obligations, and register for tax.

  • Set up a private limited company

    Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company

  • 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.

  • Search for a patent

    Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents

  • Find a registered design

    Find registered designs in the UK

  • Renew a patent, trade mark or registered design

    How to renew your patents, trade marks or registered designs: when to renew, how to renew online or renew and restore by post, how much it costs.