News and communications

Greater access to IP-backed finance could help firms, especially small and medium enterprise (SMEs), leverage their IP to scale and grow.

• Updated: 19 March 2024

The campaign supports the IPO's commitments to raise public understanding, and ultimately respect, for IP rights.

• Updated: 28 February 2024

The music industry has agreed a Code of Good Practice on Transparency in Music Streaming. 

• Updated: 2 February 2024

Recording artists, record labels, collecting societies, broadcasters and public venues are invited to share their views by 11 March 2024.

• Updated: 15 January 2024

The Copyright Tribunal address has moved on the 1 July 2022.

• Updated: 22 November 2023

The Intellectual Property Office wants to hear from businesses by 2 February 2024 about intellectual property’s role in helping them scale and grow.

• Updated: 20 November 2023

Britain's brightest young inventors shine as Intellectual Property Office and Aardman announce winners of Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Ideas Competition 2023.

• Updated: 9 November 2023

If you work in the music industry and handle metadata, we want to hear from you by 30 November 2023.

• Updated: 3 November 2023

Responses to the consultation will inform the options for implementation of the Treaty.

• Updated: 14 September 2023

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published its Analysis Priorities for 2023/24.

• Updated: 8 August 2023

The music industry has agreed commitments to improve music streaming metadata. The Government is also establishing a working group on creator remuneration

• Updated: 31 May 2023

Inventive youngsters at Cosby Primary School have learnt all about bees and biodiversity after winning a prestigious national competition.

• Updated: 11 April 2023

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has agreed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today.

• Updated: 30 March 2023

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and Aardman have launched a new Wallace & Gromit ‘Cracking Ideas’ competition.

• Updated: 23 March 2023

There is planned maintenance on 21 December 2022, which will cause disruption to telephone calls to the Intellectual Property Office.

• Updated: 19 December 2022

The IPO has announced that Adam Williams has been appointed Chief Executive and Comptroller-General of the Intellectual Property Office.

• Updated: 13 December 2022

The UK has joined the WIPO Lex-Judgments database, opening access to UK courts’ most notable IP judgments to a global audience.

• Updated: 2 November 2022

Around 3 million UK trade marks will be added to WIPO’s Global Brands Database.

• Updated: 18 July 2022

The IPO has agreed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Korean Intellectual Property Office at the WIPO Assemblies in Geneva today.

• Updated: 15 July 2022

The IPO has announced that Adam Williams has been appointed Interim Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office.

• Updated: 13 July 2022