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Having the right type of intellectual property protection helps you to…
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You must join a client money protection scheme if you're a property agent in the private rented sector in England and you hold clients' money.
To protect your intellectual property outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
This is a guidance to help people understand how to protect intellectual property (IP) right in the UK.
Apply for protection against infringements of intellectual property rights on imports into and exports out of the UK.
What to do if you think someone's used your intellectual property without permission - types of intellectual property abuse, help resolving disputes and further legal action you can take.
This toolkit has been produced for United States small and medium-sized enterprises, to help protect their intellectual property, within the United Kingdom.
How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.
Understand how Alibaba, Amazon, eBay and Facebook help rights holders protect their intellectual property.
Find out how you can control pests on your property - help from professionals, methods you can and cannot use, protecting wildlife, getting a wildlife licence
China’s intellectual property (IP) system has continued to function over the COVID-19 period.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
If you made a UK application for action after 1 December 2020, you can extend it to protect your intellectual property rights at least 30 working days before it expires.
Information on retaining protection in the UK for EU Intellectual Property rights
Protection of your copyright work abroad will usually be automatic in the same way UK protection works.
Using deposit protection schemes - the official schemes, information you must give tenants, what happens if you do not protect a deposit, disputes and advice
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