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New procedure relating to convention country priority claims in design applications.
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Facilitating the restoration of lapsed registrations.
Renewal of UK Patents and European Patents (UK) by electronic means.
This Code of Practice is written for patent applicants and agents to identify best practices in UK patent application process.
We provide advice to Ministers, who decide whether the UK should submit observations and intervene in Court of Justice (CJ) cases concerning IP.
Publication date 3 June 2026.
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.
Publication date 17 July 2024.
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Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
Publication date 24 July 2024.
Patents, designs and trade marks forms changes resulting from The Patents, Trade Marks and Registered Designs (Fees) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules 2020.
Information on changes to IPO practice on examination of inventions involving Artificial Neural Networks.
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