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Details of all patent hearings that are scheduled.
This report is part of an ongoing series. It discusses the findings of the IPO’s Small and Medium-sized Enterprises IP Awareness Survey 2023
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The Patents Journal special notices are published every Wednesday at 4:30am.
Publication date 17 April 2024.
A review of methods used by IP offices and other organisations to forecast applications for IP rights, including patents, trade marks and designs.
New signs are published online by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This occurs every six months at the end of March and September.
How to report a security vulnerability on any Intellectual Property Office service or system.
The IPO customer service standards tell you the level of service you can expect and how we are performing against these targets.
Section last updated: May 2023.
The manual of trade marks practice sets out guidance on the Intellectual Property Office work practices.
These statistics include the latest two years of monthly data for patents, trade marks, and designs, based on IPO administrative data.
Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.
A list of unpaid costs following inter parte hearings about intellectual property
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
Publication date 10 April 2024.
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Use this service to find goods and services that would be acceptable as part of a UK trade mark application.
How to get permission to copy a creative work for which the right holder(s) cannot be found ie an orphan work.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
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