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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.
Find details of recent trade mark applications or amendments by searching the journal
Check a list of software developers who can provide Customs Declaration Service and Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) software.
Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
Around 40% of series applications don’t meet the requirements. We recommend you read this guide if you are considering making a series application.
Examples of unacceptable trade marks around protected emblems, internet domain names and your company name.
Find Companies House-recognised filing software to manage your company accounts, returns and tax accounts
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
Sign up for alerts about applications for UK trade marks or international registrations
How to send information to Companies House through our extensible markup language (XML) schemas, by purchasing software or developing your own.
To protect your trade mark outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Information for developing and testing of software for HMRC forms, returns and messages.
Benefit from your trade mark by licensing, mortgaging, selling, transferring ownership, merging and exploit by marketing.
Use this form to file your application to register a trade mark.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
International trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol will no longer enjoy protection in the UK after 1 January 2021.
Guide to licensing procedure and other restrictions for export of controlled dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources.
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
Use this form to renew your trade mark registration.
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
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