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Check if your company can pay a reduced rate of 10% Corporate Tax if it exploits patented inventions and innovations.
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.
How to take someone to the Patents Court for using a patent or registered design without permission.
Monitor the progress of a patent application through search reports, open to the public inspection files, and caveats.
Claim relief on import duty and VAT when importing miscellaneous documents and related articles into the UK.
Depending on the objection raised in your examination, you have 2 months to respond through a number of options.
Benefit from your trade mark by licensing, mortgaging, selling, transferring ownership, merging and exploit by marketing.
Check a vehicle's details, tax and SORN status and expiry dates on the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Agency (DVLA) database - online and telephone enquiries
Trade mark hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.
How to object and challenge someone else's trade mark and details of any legal costs involved.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
Section last updated: July 2021.
Sections (45.01 - 45.05) last updated: April 2007.
Use of patented inventions for services of the Crown
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A career for scientists, engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists.
Revocation of patents.
Sections (14.01 - 14.209) last updated: April 2024.
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