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Patents: detailed information

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  • Patent forms and fees
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Introduction to patents

  • Intellectual property and your work
  • Before you apply for a patent
  • Patents step by step
  • Patenting your invention
  • Seeking intellectual property advice
  • Non-disclosure agreements
  • Why you should use an IP attorney
  • Using somebody else's intellectual property
  • IP for business: events, guidance, tools and case studies
  • IP in education
  • The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court

Apply for a patent

  • Patent classification
  • Patent fact sheets
  • Patents fast grant
  • Patents: accelerated processing
  • Patent Prosecution Highway
  • National security checks on patent applications
  • Technology prejudicial to national security or public safety
  • Apply for a patent
  • Supplementary protection certificates guidance and forms
  • Patent Cooperation Treaty for private applicants
  • Request UK processing of an international patent application

Search services

  • Check the patents journal
  • Search for a patent
  • Search patent decisions

Forms and fees

  • Patent forms and fees
  • Intellectual Property Office fee sheets
  • Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fees
  • File documents for a pending UK patent
  • How to file documents with the Intellectual Property Office
  • Intellectual Property Office: how to pay us

Managing patents

  • Change or update your patent
  • Renew a patent
  • Get copies of patent, trade mark or design registration documents
  • Licensing intellectual property
  • Amending your patent after grant
  • Requests to amend a patent after grant
  • Apply for restoration of a patent
  • Monitoring patent applications
  • Warning: misleading invoices

Objecting, challenging and resolving patent disputes

  • Defend your intellectual property
  • Valuing your intellectual property
  • Observations about patentability
  • Intellectual property mediation
  • Patents: filing proceeding at the IPO
  • Ex parte hearing procedures
  • Opinions: resolving patent disputes
  • Requests for opinions
  • Patent disputes resolution: hearings
  • Patents: hearing diary
  • Search patent decisions

Patent protection abroad

  • Protecting your UK intellectual property abroad
  • IP protection abroad: country guides
  • Extension of UK intellectual property rights abroad

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

Research

  • Intellectual property research: Patents
  • Intellectual property research: IP in general

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