Guidance

Patents if there’s no Brexit deal

How the UK patent system would be affected if the UK leaves the EU with no deal.

• From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Intellectual Property Office
• Published: 24 September 2018

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Patents if there’s no Brexit deal

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If the UK leaves the EU on 31 October 2019 without a deal, find out how this would affect:

• the UK patent system and supplementary protection certificates
• the Unified Patent Court and unitary patent
• correspondence addresses and confidentiality for UK patents

This is 1 of 4 notices covering intellectual property. The other notices cover:

• EU Trade Marks and Community designs
• Exhaustion
• Cross-border copyright

Published 24 September 2018