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Section (73.01 - 73.12) last updated: January 2025.
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Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Right to apply for and obtain a patent and be mentioned as inventor.
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
As a trade mark applicant you need to consider whether to proceed with your application following issues raised in the examination report.
A list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
The patents hearings manual provides guidance to the law and procedure concerning patent and design right hearings.
Basic introduction for private applicants on filing international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Section (11.01 - 11.64 ) last updated: August 2018.
Section (7.01 - 7.58 ) last updated: July 2020.
Sections (3.01 - 3.38) last updated: October 2019.
Section (16.01 - 16.37) last updated: March 2017.
A varying direction which removes expired email addresses from existing patents directions.
The fast track opposition process is intended to benefit business by improving access to opposition proceedings.
The UK music industry has agreed to improve music streaming metadata
This strategy sets out the government’s approach to tackling intellectual property crime and infringement for the next five years
Changes to patents, trade marks, and designs forms to ensure GDPR compliance and enable more efficient processing.
These guidelines set out how the IPO examines patent applications for medical inventions.
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