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The UK music industry has agreed to improve music streaming metadata
Guidance for Satellite broadcasters transmitting copyright works into the UK and from the UK to EEA states.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the UAE.
Invalidation or cancellation, is the legal process which allows anyone to try and remove a design from our register
Publication date 19 November 2025.
Practice Amendment Notice (PAN) following the Supreme Court’s judgment in SkyKick UK Ltd and another v Sky Ltd and others.
You should get legal advice before applying for intellectual property. Your chances of obtaining intellectual property are much greater if you use an attorney.
The IPO's IP for business tools, training and guidance can help you create value from your ideas, turning inspiration into sustainable business success.
This notice is aimed at small business and individuals who may wish to assign their own copyright or have been asked to assign copyright.
The Marrakesh Treaty is an international legal instrument which makes it easier for blind, visually impaired and print disabled people to access works protected by copyright.
Give HMRC notice to stop parallel imports arriving in the UK that have been marketed or overproduced without consent of the rights holder.
Directions to direct the form and manner in which patent, trade mark and designs forms and documents can be submitted by e-mail.
This strategy sets out the government’s approach to tackling intellectual property crime and infringement for the next five years
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
Details on how to make a request for accelerated examination under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH).
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
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.
A list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
An overview of the new patents service.
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