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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.