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Changes to patents, designs and trade marks forms resulting from the addition of a payment page on 1 October 2020.
This provides information on applications forms, time periods for response and the process for deferring publication of a design.
Understand why so called ‘Kodi’ and other illegal IPTV set-top boxes and sticks should be avoided.
How to take part in user research at the UK IPO – signing up, who we want to meet with, why we research and your data rights.
Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs) at the end of the transition period.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in Peru.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in Kazakhstan.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Indonesia.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Vietnam.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Philippines.
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
Report goods that you think infringe your intellectual property rights, even if they’re already being imported.
This guidance explains why and how a party in an intellectual property case must notify the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about the case.
One of the key changes being brought in by the new EU Trade Mark Directive allows non-graphical representations of trade marks.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in November 2017.
Publication date 3 July 2024.
Publication date 30 October 2024.
We are reviewing some of the changes made in 2014 and ask you for evidence of the impact on you or your organisation.
Directions under section 66 of the Trade Marks Act 1994 given in relation to legislative changes introduced by the Trade Marks Regulations 2018.
Publication date 31 July 2024.
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