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Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Vietnam
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your Intellectual Property (IP) rights in South Korea.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Qatar.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Kuwait.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in Kazakhstan.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Cambodia.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Laos.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub signposts to international SEPs-specific information, including for the purposes of patent applications.
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.
A unitary patent will protect your invention in up to 25 EU countries and will be subject to the jurisdiction of the Unified Patent Court.
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.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Australia.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in November 2017.
Publication date 3 July 2024.
Publication date 30 October 2024.
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Publication date 31 July 2024.
Publication date 11 February 2026.
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Directions to direct the form and manner in with patent, trade mark and designs renewal applications can be submitted electronically.
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