Guidance and regulation

General guidance for all organisations (including charities, voluntary and not-for profit) on showing broadcasts to the public e.g. customers and employees.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 21 April 2023

To protect your patent outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 19 December 2023

How to get permission to copy a creative work for which the right holder(s) cannot be found ie an orphan work.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 7 May 2024

Information on paying by card, cheque, bank transfer or deposit account.

• From: Company Names Tribunal and 1 others
• Updated: 7 May 2024

The Patents Rules 2007 set out the detailed procedures under the Patents Act 1977, and came into force on 17 December 2007.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 7 January 2021

Develop your knowledge and skills in IP such as trade marks, copyright, designs and patents with our IP masterclass training course.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 23 January 2024

This notice provides advice for anyone wishing to understand how long copyright protection lasts in new and existing works.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 15 January 2021

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

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 18 November 2019

The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 18 December 2019

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.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 4 January 2022

Mediation is a type of alternative dispute resolution and may help you resolve an intellectual property dispute.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 14 March 2024

Actions that parallel exporters to the EEA and intellectual property rights holders need to take.

• From: Government Digital Service and 1 others
• Updated: 21 June 2021

Summary of the government's ongoing programme of work to develop a code of practice on copyright and AI.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 29 June 2023

Trade mark hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 20 May 2014

Details on how to file evidence regarding your trade mark or during tribunal proceedings.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 8 November 2019

Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.

• From: Government Digital Service and 1 others
• Updated: 15 February 2022

International trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol will no longer enjoy protection in the UK after 1 January 2021.

• From: Government Digital Service and 1 others
• Updated: 27 September 2021

The date of grant and date of publication will be available online for all UK national registered designs.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 21 September 2022

Guidance on UK and EU copyright protection for right holders and users including business, cultural heritage institutions and consumers. It is not legal advice.

• From: Government Digital Service and 1 others
• Updated: 30 January 2020

This notice is aimed at small businesses and individuals who may wish to use digital or photographic images on the web.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 4 January 2021