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Publication date 4 June 2025.
Guidelines and scenarios explaining how the IPO examines AI inventions.
You can help define the scope of protection given to your registered design by including a disclaimer or limitation alongside your illustration.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
Revocation is the legal procedure that allows anyone to try and remove a trade mark from the UK register.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Vietnam.
General guidance for all organisations (including charities, voluntary and not-for profit) on showing broadcasts to the public e.g. customers and employees.
Thinking of doing business in Southeast Asia, China, Latin America, North America, Middle East, North Africa and India? Help and advice is available through our IP liaison officers (attachés).
An overview of the work the IPO is undertaking in relation to Standard Essential Patents.
This guide explains the Intellectual Property practice under the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Registered Design Rules 2006.
International trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol will no longer enjoy protection in the UK after 1 January 2021.
To protect your invention outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Protection in the EU for databases produced in the UK.
Events which have an intellectual property or business focus.
Rectification is the legal procedure which allows anyone to apply to correct an error or omission to the recorded details of a registered trade mark.
Protection of your copyright work abroad will usually be automatic in the same way UK protection works.
Guidance on the procedures the Intellectual Property Office follows when examining the formalities of patent applications.
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs) at the end of the transition period.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub signposts to relevant UK cases concerning SEPs.
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