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This explains the rules governing address for service for intellectual property rights in the UK.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Key information for customers and users of IP about how the IP system and the Intellectual Property Office will operate after the end of the transition period.
International trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol will no longer enjoy protection in the UK after 1 January 2021.
Actions that parallel exporters to the EEA and intellectual property rights holders need to take.
How the Northern Ireland Protocol affects supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), and what it means you need to do when applying for an SPC and afterwards.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
UK customers may not be able to access their online content services when they visit the EU.
Information on retaining protection in the UK for EU Intellectual Property rights
Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs) at the end of the transition period.
IPO internal and external services for trade marks, designs and patents disrupted.
Information on trade marks, designs, patents, copyright, and exhaustion of IP rights during the transition period.
Guidance for Satellite broadcasters transmitting copyright works into the UK and from the UK to EEA states.
Guidance on UK and EU copyright protection for right holders and users including business, cultural heritage institutions and consumers. It is not legal advice.
Customers must no longer access programmes via EU satellite broadcasting services to avoid a charge for a UK service.
EEA collective management organisations may no longer automatically represent UK right holders and collective management organisations.
Guidance on options for making orphan works available online for cultural heritage institutions.
Protection in the EU for databases produced in the UK.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period.
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