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A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
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The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
This guidance relates to Technical Standards and Standard Development Organisations to describe the typical first step in a Standard Essential Patent (SEP) journey.
To protect your invention outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.
This document outlines the different accelerated procedures offered to accelerate patent application processing.
A collection of guidance about applying for, managing and enforcing a patent. Patents help protect a product or process, for example machines and medicines.
Monitor the progress of a patent application through search reports, open to the public inspection files, and caveats.
Search for patents and supplementary certificates (SPCs) that have been granted, published and filed
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