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Basic introduction for private applicants on filing international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
All patent applications filed at the IPO are checked to identify any which could be prejudicial to national security or public safety.
Detailed information about the new service.
Publication date 12 November 2025.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Australia.
Guidance on UK and EU copyright protection for right holders and users including business, cultural heritage institutions and consumers. It is not legal advice.
This guidance relates to Standard Essential Patents licensing.
Designs correction of error notices are used to notify any third party of a proposed correction of a clerical error made by the registry prior to a correction taking place.
An unofficial consolidated version of the patents related sections of parts 5 and 6 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
A change to practice in proceedings before the Registrar’s Tribunal.
You can make an application to amend your patent after it has been granted either with us or at the Court.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Pakistan.
An overview of the work the IPO is undertaking in relation to Standard Essential Patents.
Summary of the government's ongoing programme of work to develop a code of practice on copyright and AI.
How SPC law is affected by new legislation which came into force on 1 January 2025, the actions SPC holders and applicants need to take, and the issues they need to be aware of.
At the end of every month we publish a newsletter covering recent intellectual property (IP) developments in China.
A post implementation review (PIR) for EU Directive 2011/77/EU which increased the term for sound recordings from 50 to 70 years.
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