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Warning: misleading invoices

Be aware of misleading invoices offering services to help protect your IP rights in return for a fee.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Published: 5 September 2014
• Last updated: 30 July 2024 — See all updates

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Misleading invoices documents

• Avoiding misleading payment requests
  • 30 July 2024
  • Guidance
• IPO issues fresh warning to beware of misleading invoices
  • 12 September 2024
  • News story
• Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) Adjudication
  • 28 January 2016
  • News story
• Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) Adjudications
  • 5 January 2015
  • News story
• Warning: fraudulent invoices
  • 10 December 2014
  • News story
• Warning: Intellectual Property Office alerted to new renewal scam
  • 2 December 2015
  • News story
• IP scammers face record financial liability
  • 10 November 2015
  • Press release
• Intellectual Property Office succeeds in passing off claim
  • 18 August 2014
  • News story
• IPO initiates legal action to protect its own IP
  • 21 May 2014
  • News story

Published 5 September 2014
Last updated 30 July 2024 + show all updates

1. 30 July 2024

   IPO issues fresh warning to beware of misleading invoices added.

2. 6 October 2020

   Guidance: Avoiding misleading payment requests added.

3. 28 January 2016

   News story for Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) Adjudication has been published.

4. 2 December 2015

   Warning: Intellectual Property Office alerted to new renewal scam - story added.

5. 16 November 2015

   Press release added.

6. 31 December 2014

   News story for Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) Adjudications has been published.

7. 10 December 2014

   News story: - Warning: Fraudulent invoices - added to collection.

8. 5 September 2014

   First published.