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This explains the rules governing address for service for intellectual property rights in the UK.
Information on paying by card, bank transfer, deposit account or cheque.
Depending on the objection raised in your examination, you have 2 months to respond through a number of options.
Details on how to file evidence regarding your trade mark or during tribunal proceedings.
Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period.
Mediation is a type of alternative dispute resolution and may help you resolve an intellectual property dispute.
Like other forms of property, you can buy, sell and license IP, it is important you understand the value your trade mark, patent or design.
Trade mark hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.
A change in practice to costs in patents, trade mark and designs.
Some countries may allow you to extend your UK IP protection and accept it as protected in that country after completing local formalities.
Develop your knowledge and skills in IP such as trade marks, copyright, designs and patents with our IP masterclass training course.
Invalidation is the legal procedure which allows anyone to try and remove a trade mark from our register as if it had never been registered
What collective and certification trade marks are and when they apply.
Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.
Intellectual property insurance may not be appropriate for every business however you may find that IP insurance has numerous benefits.
Practice Amendment Notice (PAN) following the Supreme Court’s judgment in SkyKick UK Ltd and another v Sky Ltd and others.
International trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol will no longer enjoy protection in the UK after 1 January 2021.
The following certificates were issued on 27 March 2020 and 8 July 2020 by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
Events which have an intellectual property or business focus.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
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