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These guidelines set out how the IPO examines patent applications for medical inventions.
The patents hearings manual provides guidance to the law and procedure concerning patent and design right hearings.
Publication date 4 December 2024.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub provides an explanation of SEP specific words and terms used throughout the guidance.
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.
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
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.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in India.
These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for biotechnological inventions under the Patents Act 1977.
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.
A change in practice in the registrar’s service of documents in trade mark and registered design inter partes proceedings.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
How the Northern Ireland Protocol affects supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), and what it means you need to do when applying for an SPC and afterwards.
Information on changes to IPO practice on examination of inventions involving Artificial Neural Networks.
Basic introduction for private applicants on filing international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
SEPs are of growing importance to the UK economy. The IPO is committed to ensuring the current SEPs framework functions effectively to encourage innovation and promote competition.
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