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You can write to us and offer to surrender your patent after it has been granted.
Publication date 25 March 2026.
Using the international patent, UK patent and cooperative patent classification schemes
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for chemical inventions
These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for biotechnological inventions under the Patents Act 1977.
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 on patents hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.
This guidance explains why and how a party in an intellectual property case must notify the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about the case.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Indonesia.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Cambodia.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing Business in Chile.
The below provides guidance and helpful information on the IPO's attaché based in North America
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
Publication date 18 March 2026.
How SPC law is affected by new legislation which came into force on 1 January 2025, the actions SPC holders and applicants need to take, and the issues they need to be aware of.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
Publication date 11 March 2026.
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