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This guidance explains why and how a party in an intellectual property case must notify the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about the case.
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Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
Practice Amendment Notice (PAN) in respect of retailing or bringing together of services
An unofficial consolidated version of the patents related sections of parts 5 and 6 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
The Lambert Toolkit contains an example of a form of variation agreement for the collaboration and consortium agreements.
This guidance sets out how foreign works and nationals are protected under UK copyright law.
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These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for biotechnological inventions under the Patents Act 1977.
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Information on changes to IPO practice involving divisional applications.
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