Patents, trade marks, copyright and designs

Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents

Trade marks

• Search for a trade mark
• Check the trade marks journal
• Renew your trade mark
• Renew a patent, trade mark or registered design
• Search trade mark decisions
• Track a trade mark
• Give notice of your intention to oppose a trade mark
• Update or surrender your registered trade marks

Manage a patent, trade mark or registered design

• Renew a patent, trade mark or registered design
• Get copies of patent, trade mark or design documents

Copyright and intellectual property

• Find a registered design
• Register a design
• Renew your registered design
• Check the designs journal
• Intellectual property and your work
• Using somebody else's intellectual property
• How copyright protects your work
• How your unregistered designs are protected
• Update or cancel your registered designs

Patents

• Search for a patent
• Renew a patent
• Change or update your patent
• Check the patents journal
• File documents for a pending UK patent
• Get an uncertified electronic copy of your patent
• Request UK processing of an international patent application
• Renew a patent, trade mark or registered design
• Search patent decisions

Licensing

• Find out if you need a licence to copy a creative work
• Get a licence to play live or recorded music