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Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period.
Benefit from your trade mark by licensing, mortgaging, selling, transferring ownership, merging and exploit by marketing.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Sign up for alerts about applications for UK trade marks or international registrations
Find details of recent trade mark applications or amendments by searching the journal
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Kuwait.
Change official details about trademarks in the trade mark register with no cost or charge - find forms, correct mistakes, appoint a representative, surrender your rights to a trade mark
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Qatar.
Find out about the UK geographical indication (GI) schemes that protect the geographical names of food, drink and agricultural products, and the UK GI schemes registers.
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
How to object and challenge someone else's trade mark and details of any legal costs involved.
Get certified or uncertified copies of your patent, trade mark or design registration documents to prove that you have intellectual property rights.
To protect your trade mark outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
This explains the rules governing address for service for intellectual property rights in the UK.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Renew a trade mark, including late renewals and restoring a trade mark
Around 40% of series applications don’t meet the requirements. We recommend you read this guide if you are considering making a series application.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your Intellectual Property (IP) rights in South Korea.
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