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Depending on the objection raised in your examination, you have 2 months to respond through a number of options.
Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period.
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
In order to better understand the process of applying for a design, we recommend you view the design timeline.
Details on how to file evidence regarding your trade mark or during tribunal proceedings.
Develop your knowledge and skills in IP such as trade marks, copyright, designs and patents with our IP masterclass training course.
Mediation is a type of alternative dispute resolution and may help you resolve an intellectual property dispute.
The date of grant and date of publication will be available online for all UK national registered designs.
How to get permission to copy a creative work for which the right holder(s) cannot be found ie an orphan work.
The Registered Designs Act 1949 is the current law for the registration of designs and the protection of registered designs in the UK
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.
A change in practice to costs in patents, trade mark and designs.
Apply for protection against infringements of intellectual property rights on UK imports and exports.
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
Actions that intellectual property rights holders and parallel exporters and to and from the European Economic Area (EEA) need to take.
You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.
What collective and certification trade marks are and when they apply.
The UK Patent Library Network provide users with local access to patent, trade mark, designs and copyright information.
Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.
A copyright notice is a concise note published by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) providing basic copyright guidance.
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