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Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
This guide explains the Intellectual Property practice under the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Registered Design Rules 2006.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
Your chances of obtaining a useful patent are significantly greater if you use an attorney. A patent specification is a legal document and requires specialist skills to draft properly.
Directions to direct the form and manner in which patent, trade mark and designs forms and documents can be submitted by e-mail.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
The IPO's IP for business tools, training and guidance can help you create value from your ideas, turning inspiration into sustainable business success.
Invalidation or cancellation, is the legal process which allows anyone to try and remove a design from our register
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Australia.
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.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
An unofficial consolidated version of the Design right (unregistered) sections of part 3 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
A change to practice in proceedings before the Registrar’s Tribunal.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Brazil.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
A change in practice in the registrar’s service of documents in trade mark and registered design inter partes proceedings.
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