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How a product complies with EU safety, health and environmental requirements, and how to place a CE marking on your product.
Find out if you need to use the UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed) marking on products you manufacture or handle.
Sign up for alerts about applications for UK trade marks or international registrations
Find out if you will need to use the new UKNI marking and how to use it.
How to object and challenge someone else's trade mark and details of any legal costs involved.
International trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol will no longer enjoy protection in the UK after 1 January 2021.
Trade mark hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.
How to get a flock or herd mark for livestock (including those kept as pets) and keep your registered details up to date.
What livestock keepers must do when they temporarily use extra land or buildings and their livestock will not mix with someone else’s livestock.
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
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.
Advice for manufacturers of Class I medical devices for placing products on the UK market
An overview of the High Risk Corporates Programme.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in India.
Benefit from your trade mark by licensing, mortgaging, selling, transferring ownership, merging and exploit by marketing.
Depending on the objection raised in your examination, you have 2 months to respond through a number of options.
Beef abattoirs must dress, categorise, classify, weigh and label carcases according to regulations, and communicate results to suppliers.
Apply for an extension to oppose a trade mark application beyond the initial 2-month opposition time - also known as a notice of threatened opposition
Guidance for Trading Standards officers on how to enforce the hallmarking law.
We handle cases relating to intellectual property disputes about: patents registered designs plant varieties If the amount sought (damages) is under £500,000 then the case can also be heard by the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court . If the amount sought...
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