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To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Vietnam.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub signposts to relevant UK cases concerning SEPs.
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.
Directions to direct the form and manner in which patent, trade mark and designs forms and documents can be submitted by e-mail.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in India.
This guidance explains why and how a party in an intellectual property case must notify the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about the case.
If you are unable to reach agreement with a patent examiner over your patent application you can request an ex parte hearing.
Publication date 23 July 2025
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub signposts to international SEPs-specific information, including for the purposes of patent applications.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in ASEAN.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Australia.
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
The patents hearings manual provides guidance to the law and procedure concerning patent and design right hearings.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
Guidance on administrative procedures for patent and design right proceedings and requests for Restorations and Post-Grant.
A change in practice in the registrar’s service of documents in trade mark and registered design inter partes proceedings.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Indonesia.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Saudi Arabia.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Thailand.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the UAE.
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