We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Events which have an intellectual property or business focus.
The IPO's IP for business tools, training and guidance can help you create value from your ideas, turning inspiration into sustainable business success.
A list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in ASEAN.
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 China.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
An unofficial consolidated version of the Design right (unregistered) sections of part 3 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the UAE.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Intellectual property insurance may not be appropriate for every business however you may find that IP insurance has numerous benefits.
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.
Invalidation or cancellation, is the legal process which allows anyone to try and remove a design from our register
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Directions to direct the form and manner in which patent, trade mark and designs forms and documents can be submitted by e-mail.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
Changes to patents, trade marks, and designs forms to ensure GDPR compliance and enable more efficient processing.
A change to practice in proceedings before the Registrar’s Tribunal.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).