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In order to better understand the process of applying for a design, we recommend you view the design timeline.
Authors of original works of art are entitled to a royalty each time one of their works is resold through an art market professional.
Guidance for copyright owners on how to grant a licence for, sell or market their work.
Depending on the objection raised in your examination, you have 2 months to respond through a number of options.
The Registered Designs Act 1949 is the current law for the registration of designs and the protection of registered designs in the UK
This document outlines the different accelerated procedures offered to accelerate patent application processing.
This guide is for patent owners who need further information on filing proceedings as an option to resolve a dispute.
How to get permission to copy a creative work for which the right holder(s) cannot be found ie an orphan work.
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.
Give HMRC notice to stop parallel imports arriving in the UK that have been marketed or overproduced without consent of the rights holder.
How to enforce copyright when somebody uses your work without your permission.
Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.
Develop your knowledge and skills in IP such as trade marks, copyright, designs and patents with our IP masterclass training course.
A change in practice to costs in patents, trade mark and designs.
You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
Understand how Alibaba, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Temu and Tiktok help rights holders protect their intellectual property.
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
At the end of every month we publish a newsletter covering recent intellectual property (IP) developments in China.
Trade mark hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.
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