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Sections (117.01 - 117.31) last updated: October 2025.
To protect your invention outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Guidelines and scenarios explaining how the IPO examines AI inventions.
Sections (72.01 - 72.45) last updated: October 2023.
Guidance for Satellite broadcasters transmitting copyright works into the UK and from the UK to EEA states.
Sections (13.01 - 13.19) last updated: April 2024.
Sections (16.01 - 16.37) Last updated: October 2025.
Section last updated: May 2023.
Actions that intellectual property rights holders and parallel exporters and to and from the European Economic Area (EEA) need to take.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Guidance on the changes to copyright law and how they might have an impact on you.
Practice Amendment Notice (PAN) following the Supreme Court’s judgment in SkyKick UK Ltd and another v Sky Ltd and others.
Sections (25.01 - 25.15) last updated: April 2021.
Protection in the EU for databases produced in the UK.
This notice provides advice for anyone wishing to understand how long copyright protection lasts in new and existing works.
There are different model agreements for management of Intellectual Property (IP) in collaborative research in the UK and overseas.
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
Music industry voluntary code that is a commitment to standards of good practice in relation to music streaming.
The Lambert Toolkit contains two examples of heads of terms, one for collaboration agreements and the other for consortium agreements.
Sections (15A.01 - 15A.26) last updated: October 2025..
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