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Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
You can register your trade mark to protect your brand, for example the…
Before you apply for a trade mark you need to: decide which general…
To apply you’ll need: details of what you want to register, for example…
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will examine your application and…
Your trade mark will be registered around 10 weeks (2 months, plus 2…
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Find out what checks you should complete and how to report potential fraud if you’re an agency, employer or worker.
Guidance about working in collaboration with other charities.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
Find out about gaining approval for a fair partial exemption special method if you deal with partial exemption for insurers.
How to register a group of companies, company divisions, joint business ventures and business units for VAT and what to do if they change after registration.
Find out how to work out VAT on supplies of staff including supplies made by staff bureaux.
Find out if you have to pay Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) on transfers of land or property depending on type of transfer, your marital status and other factors.
Guidance for employers on how to sponsor a worker on the Global Business Mobility (GBM) routes.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
An overview of the process including submitting or fast tracking an application, naming your medicine and paying fees.
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
The Attorney General confirms the requirement not to publish material which could prejudice any potential criminal investigation or prosecutions.
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
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