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Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
Intellectual property insurance may not be appropriate for every business however you may find that IP insurance has numerous benefits.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Pakistan.
If you are in a dispute with someone over the infringement or validity of a patent or SPC, you may request a non-binding opinion.
How to identify and avoid buying fake car parts and how to report.
If you are unable to reach agreement with a patent examiner over your patent application you can request an ex parte hearing.
Thinking of doing business in Southeast Asia, China, Latin America, North America, Middle East, North Africa and India? Help and advice is available through our IP liaison officers (attachés).
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.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in India.
Invalidation or cancellation, is the legal process which allows anyone to try and remove a design from our register
These guidelines set out how the IPO examines patent applications for medical inventions.
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 Vietnam
Guidance on patents hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.
Information about opinions requests we have received this year.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Philippines.
The patents hearings manual provides guidance to the law and procedure concerning patent and design right hearings.
What to do if you have received a letter alleging someone has used your internet connection to download copyright protected material.
Basic introduction for private applicants on filing international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
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