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To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
This notice is aimed at small businesses and individuals who may wish to use digital or photographic images on the web.
Sections (25.01 - 25.15) last updated: April 2021.
Guidance on the changes to copyright law and how they might have an impact on you.
Guidance on searching for right holders in copyright works to obtain permission to reproduce the work.
A career for scientists, engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists.
Sections (16.01 - 16.37) Last updated: October 2025.
All patent applications filed at the IPO are checked to identify any which could be prejudicial to national security or public safety.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
This guidance relates to Technical Standards and Standard Development Organisations to describe the typical first step in a Standard Essential Patent (SEP) journey.
Summary of the government's ongoing work addressing key issues identified by the DCMS Select Committee’s Inquiry into the Economics of Music Streaming.
Section last updated: May 2023.
This guidance sets out how foreign works and nationals are protected under UK copyright law.
Actions that intellectual property rights holders and parallel exporters and to and from the European Economic Area (EEA) need to take.
Sections (117.01 - 117.31) last updated: October 2025.
Sections (13.01 - 13.19) last updated: January 2026.
Guidance on the procedures the Intellectual Property Office follows when examining the formalities of patent applications.
Restricting specifications of applications and registrations subject to Tribunal proceedings
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
Revocation is the legal procedure that allows anyone to try and remove a trade mark from the UK register.
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