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The IPO's IP for business tools, training and guidance can help you create value from your ideas, turning inspiration into sustainable business success.
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A list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
You can make an application to amend your patent after it has been granted either with us or at the Court.
If you made a UK application for action after 1 December 2020, you can extend it to protect your intellectual property rights at least 30 working days before it expires.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in ASEAN.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
This strategy sets out the government’s approach to tackling intellectual property crime and infringement for the next five years
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub provides an explanation of SEP specific words and terms used throughout the guidance.
All patent applications filed at the IPO are checked to identify any which could be prejudicial to national security or public safety.
An unofficial consolidated version of the Design right (unregistered) sections of part 3 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Details on how to make a request for accelerated examination under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH).
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub signposts to international SEPs-specific information, including for the purposes of patent applications.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the UAE.
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