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How to write a description for a patent application.
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.
If your patent has ceased because you did not pay your renewal fee in time, you can apply to restore it.
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.
Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period.
You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.
Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.
The UK Patent Library Network provide users with local access to patent, trade mark, designs and copyright information.
A change in practice to costs in patents, trade mark and designs.
Monitor the progress of a patent application through search reports, open to the public inspection files, and caveats.
Guidance on the procedures the Intellectual Property Office follows when examining the formalities of patent applications.
MOD copyright information, how to obtain licensing permission, use of MOD names, logos and insignia on items offered for sale (merchandise).
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
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.
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.
Actions that intellectual property rights holders and parallel exporters and to and from the European Economic Area (EEA) need to take.
How to write claims for your patent application
This guidance relates to Standard Essential Patents licensing.
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
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