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Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
The below provides guidance and helpful information on the IPO's attaché based in China
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Intellectual property insurance may not be appropriate for every business however you may find that IP insurance has numerous benefits.
This guide explains the Intellectual Property practice under the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Registered Design Rules 2006.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
You can help define the scope of protection given to your registered design by including a disclaimer or limitation alongside your illustration.
The IPO's IP for business tools, training and guidance can help you create value from your ideas, turning inspiration into sustainable business success.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Philippines.
Guidance for business: setting out how the new patents, trade marks and designs fees will apply
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
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 list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
This page provides partners and stakeholders with ready to use content to support the intellectual property office (IPO) business campaign.
A change to practice in proceedings before the Registrar’s Tribunal.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
This guide is for businesses and sets out ways to successfully manage their intangible assets, or IP.
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