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Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
All marketing and advertising must be: an accurate description of the…
Advertising to consumers The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading…
There are 2 advertising codes of practice that describe how businesses…
You must describe your product accurately. This means if you make a claim…
You must check if customers want to be contacted by fax, phone, post or…
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol.
You can register your trade mark to protect your brand, for example the…
Before you apply for a trade mark you need to: decide which general…
To apply you’ll need: details of what you want to register, for example…
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will examine your application and…
Your trade mark will be registered around 10 weeks (2 months, plus 2…
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
How to use an interrupted time series to evaluate your digital health product.
How to renew your patents, trade marks or registered designs: when to renew, how to renew online or renew and restore by post, how much it costs.
Anyone in Northern Ireland selling medicines to the public via a website must still comply with the requirement to apply the EU common logo.
Apply for an Innovator Founder visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, extend or switch, bring your family.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
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