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Sections (14.01 - 14.209) last updated: July 2026.
Benefit from your trade mark by licensing, mortgaging, selling, transferring ownership, merging and exploit by marketing.
A resource collection to help research institutions and businesses to identify, protect, manage and use their intellectual property and wider knowledge assets.
To protect your trade mark outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Examples of unacceptable trade marks around protected emblems, internet domain names and your company name.
Licensing bodies and collective management organisations can agree licences with users on behalf of owners and collect any royalties the owners are owed.
The Trade Marks Act 1994 make up part of the trade mark legislation in the UK.
Finding the right advice and advisor is the first step in making the best decisions for your invention or business.
Section last updated: July 2023.
Intellectual property can be bought, sold or licensed.
Sections (18.01 - 18.99) last updated: July 2026.
The principal legislation on copyright can be found in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
There are 7 model research collaboration agreements for universities and companies that wish to undertake collaborative research projects together.
This explains the rules governing address for service for intellectual property rights in the UK.
The Patents Rules 2007 set out the detailed procedures under the Patents Act 1977, and came into force on 17 December 2007.
You may receive a misleading invoice that requests payment for a service related to a trade mark, design, or patent. Here's some information and guidance on what to do.
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Authors of original works of art are entitled to a royalty each time one of their works is resold through an art market professional.
Section last updated: January 2021.
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