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This guidance relates to Standard Essential Patents licensing.
Publication date 3 December 2025.
If your patent has ceased because you did not pay your renewal fee in time, you can apply to restore it.
An overview of the work the IPO is undertaking in relation to Standard Essential Patents.
Your chances of obtaining a useful patent are significantly greater if you use an attorney. A patent specification is a legal document and requires specialist skills to draft properly.
Details on how to make a request for accelerated examination under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH).
Intellectual property insurance may not be appropriate for every business however you may find that IP insurance has numerous benefits.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
The below provides guidance and helpful information on the IPO's attaché based in LATAC
An overview of the new patents service.
Using the international patent, UK patent and cooperative patent classification schemes
These guidelines set out how the IPO examines patent applications for medical inventions.
Directions to direct the form and manner in which patent, trade mark and designs forms and documents can be submitted by e-mail.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
Publication date 10 December 2025.
You can make an application to amend your patent after it has been granted either with us or at the Court.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
The below provides guidance and helpful information on the IPO's attaché based in North America
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
The below provides guidance and helpful information on the IPO's attaché based in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan
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