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A varying direction which removes expired email addresses from existing patents directions.
Publication date 20 May 2026.
An unofficial consolidated version of the patents related sections of parts 5 and 6 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
A change to practice in proceedings before the Registrar’s Tribunal.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
This toolkit helps UK and Korean universities and industry manage Intellectual Property (IP) in collaborative research projects.
Statutory Instruments are secondary legislation that has been passed by Parliament.
We are reviewing some of the changes made in 2014 and ask you for evidence of the impact on you or your organisation.
Designs correction of error notices are used to notify any third party of a proposed correction of a clerical error made by the registry prior to a correction taking place.
One of the key changes being brought in by the new EU Trade Mark Directive allows non-graphical representations of trade marks.
New agreed upon procedures for the audit of the annual transparency reports of collective management organisations.
Changes to the patents forms to align with the One IPO digital service.
Patents, designs and trade marks forms changes.
Changes to patents, designs and trade marks forms resulting from the addition of a payment page on 1 October 2020.
Facilitating the restoration of lapsed registrations.
If you are unable to reach agreement with a patent examiner over your patent application you can request an ex parte hearing.
Understand how Alibaba, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Temu and Tiktok help rights holders protect their intellectual property.
Publication date 13 May 2026.
Publication date 18 February 2026.
Publication date 7 January 2026.
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