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Restricting specifications of applications and registrations subject to Tribunal proceedings
A change to practice in proceedings before the Registrar’s Tribunal.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
This guidance describes the dispute resolution services and remedies available for standard essential patents (SEPs) disputes.
Section (5.01 - 5.56) last updated: March 2017.
The below provides guidance and helpful information on the IPO's attaché based in Southeast Asia
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Sections (117.01 - 117.31) last updated: October 2025.
Sections (19.01 - 19.26) last updated: October 2024.
Sections (23.01 - 23.08) last updated: April 2023.
Invalidation or cancellation, is the legal process which allows anyone to try and remove a design from our register
Basic introduction for private applicants on filing international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
As a trade mark applicant you need to consider whether to proceed with your application following issues raised in the examination report.
Section (13.01 - 13.144) last updated July 2020.
Sections (75.01 - 75.21.2) last updated: April 2023.
Section (88.01) last updated: April 2007.
Employees’ inventions.
Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs) at the end of the transition period.
Section last updated: May 2023.
This guide explains the Intellectual Property practice under the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Registered Design Rules 2006.
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