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Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs) at the end of the transition period.
You can make an application to amend your patent after it has been granted either with us or at the Court.
If you made a UK application for action after 1 December 2020, you can extend it to protect your intellectual property rights at least 30 working days before it expires.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Vietnam.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
All patent applications filed at the IPO are checked to identify any which could be prejudicial to national security or public safety.
An unofficial consolidated version of the Design right (unregistered) sections of part 3 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
This strategy sets out the government鈥檚 approach to tackling intellectual property crime and infringement for the next five years
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub signposts to international SEPs-specific information, including for the purposes of patent applications.
Details on how to make a request for accelerated examination under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH).
Invalidation or cancellation, is the legal process which allows anyone to try and remove a design from our register
A list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
Publication date 11 June 2025.
Guidance on the procedures the Intellectual Property Office follows when examining the formalities of patent applications.
皇冠体育app hearing procedure and listed cases before the tribunal.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
Intellectual property insurance may not be appropriate for every business however you may find that IP insurance has numerous benefits.
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