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As a trade mark applicant you need to consider whether to proceed with your application following issues raised in the examination report.
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This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in ASEAN.
Free teaching resources, advice and guidance to help students learn about Intellectual Property.
A list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
Details on how to make a request for accelerated examination under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH).
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
The below provides guidance and helpful information on the IPO's attaché based in India
The below provides guidance and helpful information on the IPO's attaché based in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan
Copyright advice on printed music issues aimed at singers, instrumentalists, orchestras, choirs, bands and other users of printed music.
Information on changes to IPO practice on examination of inventions involving Artificial Neural Networks.
The Collective Management of Copyright (EU Directive) Regulations 2016 set standards for bodies involved in the collective licensing of copyright works in the United Kingdom.
Using the international patent, UK patent and cooperative patent classification schemes
Publication date 28 January 2026.
Performers in literary, dramatic or musical works have certain rights in how those works can then be used.
Understand how Alibaba, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Temu and Tiktok help rights holders protect their intellectual property.
A change in practice in the registrar’s service of documents in trade mark and registered design inter partes proceedings.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub signposts to international SEPs-specific information, including for the purposes of patent applications.
This guidance explains why and how a party in an intellectual property case must notify the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about the case.
An overview of the work the IPO is undertaking in relation to Standard Essential Patents.
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