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The Registered Designs Act 1949 is the current law for the registration of designs and the protection of registered designs in the UK
How to get permission to copy a creative work for which the right holder(s) cannot be found ie an orphan work.
Depending on the objection raised in your examination, you have 2 months to respond through a number of options.
We have a number of options for you to submit your documents.
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.
This guide is for patent owners who need further information on filing proceedings as an option to resolve a dispute.
If you own the copyright in a work, you have exclusive rights over certain uses of that work. These rights fall into two categories: economic rights and moral rights.
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
A change in practice to costs in patents, trade mark and designs.
Guidance for copyright owners on how to grant a licence for, sell or market their work.
At the end of every month we publish a newsletter covering recent intellectual property (IP) developments in China.
Apply for protection against infringements of intellectual property rights on imports into and exports out of the UK.
Some countries may allow you to extend your UK IP protection and accept it as protected in that country after completing local formalities.
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
You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.
Apply for permission to use Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) logos if you're a driving or motorcycle instructor or provide other driver training.
This document outlines the different accelerated procedures offered to accelerate patent application processing.
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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