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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 and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs) at the end of the transition period.
Rectification is the legal procedure which allows anyone to apply to correct an error or omission to the recorded details of a registered trade mark.
A change to practice in proceedings before the Registrar’s Tribunal.
As a trade mark applicant you need to consider whether to proceed with your application following issues raised in the examination report.
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.
You may be required to complete a witness statement to support your request to correct an error in a trade mark application.
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.
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.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Australia.
A coexistence agreement is a legal agreement whereby two parties agree to trade in the same or similar market using an identical or similar trade mark.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Philippines.
The following certificates were issued on 27 March 2020 and 8 July 2020 by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
This guide is for businesses and sets out ways to successfully manage their intangible assets, or IP.
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