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Guidance on administrative procedures for patent and design right proceedings and requests for Restorations and Post-Grant.
Details of Trust Services sanctions
Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to PD 51R Online Civil Money Claims and PD 51S County Court Online.
The Tribunal Patents Manual explains the Intellectual Property Office's practice under the Patents Act 1977.
Guidance on the patent opinions service, including guidance for users of the service and our procedures for handling opinions
An unofficial consolidated version of the patents related sections of parts 5 and 6 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to PD 51O Electronic Working Pilot Scheme.
This manual provides guidance on the administrative procedure for Patent and Design right proceedings and requests for Opinions.
Changes to the registered designs rules to coincide with the modernisation of primary legislation.
Guidance for legal professionals about family law disputes involving the EU.
Note for non-governmental organisations about the purpose and scope of the 2025 global irregular migration and trafficking in persons sanctions regime.
OFSI report of a penalty for breach of financial sanctions – indirectly facilitating international telephone calls to SyriaTel, a designated entity.
Information on legal and detention systems, in Jamaica, for British nationals abroad.
Information on the Pakistan legal and prison systems for British prisoners.
Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to various Practice Directions, Pre-action Protocols and the Civil Procedure (Amendment No.3) 2019.
Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to Civil Procedure Rules 12.3, 52.22(1), 52.24, 54.1, 53.2, 55.11, 55.12 and 73.
Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to PD 51R Online Civil Money Claims (OCMC) pilot.
Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to new Practice Direction 51ZA extension of time limits and clarification of PD 51Y.
Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020.
We provide advice to Ministers, who decide whether the UK should submit observations and intervene in Court of Justice (CJ) cases concerning IP.
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