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This guidance relates to Technical Standards and Standard Development Organisations to describe the typical first step in a Standard Essential Patent (SEP) journey.
You can help define the scope of protection given to your registered design by including a disclaimer or limitation alongside your illustration.
Thinking of doing business in Southeast Asia, China, Latin America, North America, Middle East, North Africa and India? Help and advice is available through our IP liaison officers (attach茅s).
An overview of the work the IPO is undertaking in relation to Standard Essential Patents.
To protect your invention outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
You may be required to complete a witness statement to support your request to correct an error in a trade mark application.
This guide explains the Intellectual Property practice under the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Registered Design Rules 2006.
Protection in the EU for databases produced in the UK.
Music industry voluntary code that is a commitment to standards of good practice in relation to music streaming.
Events which have an intellectual property or business focus.
Revocation is the legal procedure that allows anyone to try and remove a trade mark from the UK register.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub signposts to relevant UK cases concerning SEPs.
Rectification is the legal procedure which allows anyone to apply to correct an error or omission to the recorded details of a registered trade mark.
International trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol will no longer enjoy protection in the UK after 1 January 2021.
If you are in a dispute with someone over the infringement or validity of a patent or SPC, you may request a non-binding opinion.
Protection of your copyright work abroad will usually be automatic in the same way UK protection works.
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
皇冠体育app IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
Summary of the government's ongoing programme of work to develop a code of practice on copyright and AI.
皇冠体育app IPO's IP for business tools, training and guidance can help you create value from your ideas, turning inspiration into sustainable business success.
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