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Sections (21.01 - 21.26) last updated: October 2025.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Guidance on UK and EU copyright protection for right holders and users including business, cultural heritage institutions and consumers. It is not legal advice.
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
This guide is for businesses and sets out ways to successfully manage their intangible assets, or IP.
This Code of Practice is written for patent applicants and agents to identify best practices in UK patent application process.
Designs correction of error notices are used to notify any third party of a proposed correction of a clerical error made by the registry prior to a correction taking place.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
Section (7.01 - 7.58 ) last updated: July 2020.
Sections (3.01 - 3.38) last updated: October 2019.
Section (2.01 - 2.70) last updated: January 2021.
Sections (12.01 to 12.100) last updated: September 2018.
Actions that intellectual property rights holders and parallel exporters and to and from the European Economic Area (EEA) need to take.
The restorations and post grant section manual explains the Intellectual Property Office's practice under the Patents Act 1977.
Sections (4.01 - 4.07.2) last updated January 2024.
Section last updated December 2015.
Your chances of obtaining a useful patent are significantly greater if you use an attorney. A patent specification is a legal document and requires specialist skills to draft properly.
This guidance outlines the important changes to the Trade Mark Act and how they will affect rights holders.
Two expert working groups have been established to develop, support and champion practical measures to facilitate delivery of the core data set outlined in the metadata agreement.
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