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To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Events which have an intellectual property or business focus.
This guide explains the Intellectual Property practice under the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Registered Design Rules 2006.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
The IPO's IP for business tools, training and guidance can help you create value from your ideas, turning inspiration into sustainable business success.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
A change to practice in proceedings before the Registrar’s Tribunal.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
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.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
How to identify and avoid buying fake car parts and how to report.
Intellectual property insurance may not be appropriate for every business however you may find that IP insurance has numerous benefits.
We provide advice to Ministers, who decide whether the UK should submit observations and intervene in Court of Justice (CJ) cases concerning IP.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Saudi Arabia.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Invalidation or cancellation, is the legal process which allows anyone to try and remove a design from our register
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Pakistan.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the UAE.
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.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
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