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The tool is a major advance in how the IPO performs patent searches.
Overview of the Civil Service Jobs vX system for recruiters, including search and table layouts.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform allows people to search user generated content.
How Business e-services customers can apply for an official search of whole with priority through the portal.
Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents
Form OS1: official search with priority by a purchaser against the whole of a registered title or pending first registration application.
Resources, tools and guidance to help you manage and share your geospatial data and/or data in a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) way.
Form OS2: official search with priority by a purchaser against part of the land in a registered title or pending first registration application.
Guidance on promoting the findability of metadata.
Data insights assist the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in its work to bring in the best bidders for contract.
This SEO guide provides advice for data publishers to improve the findability of their metadata through search engines.
Form OS3: for official search without priority of the land in a registered title.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Guidance for police forces on the implementation of the best use of stop and search scheme.
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
How to make an official search and information on their purpose and effect (practice guide 12).
The library catalogue allows you to search all the titles in a public library - many councils offer online access to their library catalogue
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