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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…
Safety leaflet on topical corticosteroids and withdrawal reactions to help patients and their carers to use these medicines safely.
Find details of recent trade mark applications or amendments by searching the journal
How to conform with the legal requirements for placing medical devices on the market.
International trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol will no longer enjoy protection in the UK after 1 January 2021.
Renew a trade mark, including late renewals and restoring a trade mark
Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period.
Sign up for alerts about applications for UK trade marks or international registrations
Benefit from your trade mark by licensing, mortgaging, selling, transferring ownership, merging and exploit by marketing.
To protect your trade mark outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Examples of unacceptable trade marks around protected emblems, internet domain names and your company name.
Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
Depending on the objection raised in your examination, you have 2 months to respond through a number of options.
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.
Guidance for businesses.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
How to object and challenge someone else's trade mark and details of any legal costs involved.
Use this form to renew your trade mark registration.
Register a new manufacturer's mark and access lists of approved and inactive measuring container bottles (MCB) marks.
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