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Trade marks: detailed information

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Intellectual Property Office, Company Names Tribunal, Government Digital Service, HM Revenue & Customs, and Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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  • Trade mark forms and fees
  • Search for a trade mark
  • Renew your trade mark

Introduction to trade marks

  • Intellectual property and your work
  • Unacceptable trade marks
  • Using somebody else's intellectual property
  • IP for business: events, guidance, tools and case studies
  • IP in education
  • Seeking intellectual property advice
  • Why you should use an IP attorney

Apply for a trade mark

  • Trade mark series applications
  • How to classify trade marks
  • Apply to register a trade mark
  • Searching for similar trade mark goods/services in other classes
  • Collective and certification trade marks
  • Process for applying to register for a trade mark

Search services

  • Search for a trade mark
  • Check the trade marks journal
  • Search trade mark decisions
  • Track a trade mark

Forms and fees

  • Trade mark forms and fees
  • Intellectual Property Office fee sheets
  • How to file documents with the Intellectual Property Office
  • Intellectual Property Office: how to pay us

Managing trade marks

  • Update or surrender your registered trade marks
  • Renew your trade mark
  • Get copies of patent, trade mark or design registration documents
  • License, mortgage, transfer, merge and market your trade mark
  • Correct a trade mark application: witness statement
  • Trade marks: earlier rights
  • Trade marks: rectification
  • Trade mark disputes: unpaid costs orders
  • Warning: misleading invoices

Objecting, challenging and resolving trade marks disputes

  • Defend your intellectual property
  • Valuing your intellectual property
  • Objecting to other peoples trade marks and the legal costs
  • Intellectual property mediation
  • Trade mark disputes resolution: hearings
  • Options following an objection to a trade mark examination
  • Trade marks: revocation
  • Trade marks: invalidation
  • Trade marks: fast track opposition
  • Coexistence agreement
  • Search trade mark decisions
  • Filing evidence about an application or in tribunal proceedings

Trade mark protection abroad

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

Law and practice

  • Trade Marks Act 1994
  • Trade Marks Rules
  • Intellectual property offences
  • Manual of trade marks practice
  • References to the Court of Justice of the European Union
  • Tribunal practice notices
  • Practice Amendment Notices (PAN)
  • Trade mark convergence programme: common practice notices
  • Retention and disposal policy for patent and trade mark related records
  • Search trade mark decisions
  • Trade marks tribunal: glossary of terms

Research

  • Intellectual property research: Trade marks and brands
  • Intellectual property research: IP in general

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