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The IPO's IP for business tools, training and guidance can help you create value from your ideas, turning inspiration into sustainable business success.
Intellectual property insurance may not be appropriate for every business however you may find that IP insurance has numerous benefits.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
A list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
The following certificates were issued on 27 March 2020 and 8 July 2020 by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
This guide explains the Intellectual Property practice under the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Registered Design Rules 2006.
An unofficial consolidated version of the Design right (unregistered) sections of part 3 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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.
A change to practice in proceedings before the Registrar’s Tribunal.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
This guidance explains why and how a party in an intellectual property case must notify the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about the case.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
Invalidation or cancellation, is the legal process which allows anyone to try and remove a design from our register
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the UAE.
This guide is for businesses and sets out ways to successfully manage their intangible assets, or IP.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Indonesia.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Pakistan.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
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