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Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Brazil.
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.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in ASEAN.
A list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
Details on how to make a request for accelerated examination under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH).
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 India
The below provides guidance and helpful information on the IPO's attaché based in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan
Information on changes to IPO practice on examination of inventions involving Artificial Neural Networks.
Using the international patent, UK patent and cooperative patent classification schemes
Publication date 28 January 2026.
A change in practice in the registrar’s service of documents in trade mark and registered design inter partes proceedings.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub signposts to international SEPs-specific information, including for the purposes of patent applications.
This guidance explains why and how a party in an intellectual property case must notify the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about the case.
An overview of the work the IPO is undertaking in relation to Standard Essential Patents.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Pakistan.
The below provides guidance and helpful information on the IPO's attaché based in LATAC
These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for chemical inventions
The below provides guidance and helpful information on the IPO's attaché based in China
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