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Use these fact sheets to assist you with your patent application
As a trade mark applicant you need to consider whether to proceed with your application following issues raised in the examination report.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub provides an explanation of SEP specific words and terms used throughout the guidance.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Saudi Arabia.
The following certificates were issued on 27 March 2020 and 8 July 2020 by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
How to identify and avoid buying fake car parts and how to report.
An overview of our digital transformation.
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).
This guidance describes the dispute resolution services and remedies available for standard essential patents (SEPs) disputes.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
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.
Two expert working groups have been established to develop, support and champion practical measures to facilitate delivery of the core data set outlined in the metadata agreement.
Information on changes to IPO practice involving divisional applications.
This notice is aimed at individuals and small businesses who may wish to use or create knitting, sewing and related patterns.
Copyright advice on printed music issues aimed at singers, instrumentalists, orchestras, choirs, bands and other users of printed music.
An unofficial consolidated version of the Design right (unregistered) sections of part 3 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
These guidelines set out how the IPO examines patent applications for medical inventions.
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