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  • This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing Business in Chile.

  • Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Kuwait.

  • 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 Philippines.

  • Guidance on patents hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.

  • How the Northern Ireland Protocol affects supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), and what it means you need to do when applying for an SPC and afterwards.

  • Information about applications received for the review of a patent opinion.

  • How to identify and avoid buying fake car parts and how to report.

  • These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for biotechnological inventions under the Patents Act 1977.

  • Directions to direct the form and manner in with patent, trade mark and designs renewal applications can be submitted electronically.

  • Changes to patents, designs and trade marks forms resulting from the introduction of new Address for Service requirements and the end of the Transition Period.

  • Patents, designs and trade marks forms changes.

  • Patents, designs and trade marks forms changes resulting from changes to the GovPay payment system.

  • A summary of responses to the IP and Business Growth Survey (November 2023 to February 2024).

  • Publication date 19 November 2025.

  • Publication date 26 November 2025.

  • Guidance on administrative procedures for patent and design right proceedings and requests for Restorations and Post-Grant.

  • Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.

  • This manual provides guidance on the administrative procedure for Patent and Design right proceedings and requests for Opinions.