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Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
Use this service to find goods and services that would be acceptable as part of a UK trade mark application.
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…
Guidance on how to register, manage and enforce a trade mark. A trade mark protects your brand, for example the name of your product or service.
When applying to register a trade mark, you must use the classification system to specify the goods and/or services you'll be using it on.
Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
Examples of unacceptable trade marks around protected emblems, internet domain names and your company name.
Find details of recent trade mark applications or amendments by searching the journal
Get certified or uncertified copies of your patent, trade mark or design registration documents to prove that you have intellectual property rights.
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
Find out how to submit brand details to HMRC for Scotch Whisky, Irish Whiskey, Irish Cream, Irish Poteen, Somerset Cider Brandy and Single Malt Welsh Whisky if you're a verified bottler.
Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents
Search decisions from UK trade mark hearings
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in ASEAN.
Find registered designs in the UK
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Renew a trade mark, including late renewals and restoring a trade mark
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