Intellectual property
Patents: detailed information
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Introduction to patents
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- Before you apply for a patent
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- Why you should use an IP attorney
- Using somebody else's intellectual property
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Managing patents
- Change or update your patent
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Objecting, challenging and resolving patent disputes
- Defend your intellectual property
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- Patents: filing proceeding at the IPO
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Law and practice
- The Patents Act 1977
- The Patents Rules 2007 and Patents (Fees) Rules 2007
- Patents sections: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
- Patents: Manual of Patent Practice
- Patent directions
- Patents practice notices
- Patents RAPS Manual
- Patents Journal special notices 2021
- Intellectual property offences
- Patents Formalities manual
- Opinions manual
- Hearings Manual
- Tribunal Patents Manual
- Examining patent applications for biotechnological inventions
- Examining patent applications for medical inventions
- Examining patent applications relating to chemical inventions
- Retention and disposal policy for patent and trade mark related records
- Patents: Code of Practice
- References to the Court of Justice of the European Union
- Tribunal practice notices
- Search patent decisions
- Changes to Patents Rules on 1 October 2016 and 6 April 2017
- 1 October 2014: Changes to design and patent law