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  • Requests to amend a patent after grant

    Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.

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  • Standard Essential Patent licensing

    This guidance relates to Standard Essential Patents licensing.

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  • Patents: accelerated processing

    The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.

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  • Apply for a patent

    A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.

  • Search for a patent

    Search for patents and supplementary certificates (SPCs) that have been granted, published and filed

  • Observations about patentability

    You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.

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  • Intellectual property: Patents

    A collection of guidance about applying for, managing and enforcing a patent. Patents help protect a product or process, for example machines and medicines.

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  • Renew a patent

    Renew and pay for a GB or European patent online - when renewal is due, fees, renew by post or phone instead

  • Protecting your patent abroad

    To protect your invention outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.

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  • Using somebody else's intellectual property

    Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright