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Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
Section last updated January 2019.
Understand how intellectual property crime and infringement occurs and impacts on businesses.
The Lambert Toolkit contains two examples of heads of terms, one for collaboration agreements and the other for consortium agreements.
Section (11.01 - 11.64 ) last updated: August 2018.
Section (8.01 - 8.74) last updated March 2017.
Publication date 12 June 2024.
What to do where a TPM prevents you from benefiting from a copyright exception.
Sections (25.01 - 25.15) last updated: April 2021.
Highlighting current and emerging counterfeiting and piracy threats in the UK and overseas, including Trading Standards successful IP cases
An unofficial consolidated version of the patents related sections of parts 5 and 6 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Section (7.01 - 7.58 ) last updated: July 2020.
Employees’ inventions.
Sections (75.01 - 75.21.2) last updated: April 2023.
The following certificates were issued on 27 March 2020 and 8 July 2020 by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
Sections (27.01 - 27.33) last updated: April 2023.
Publication date 19 June 2024.
Details of all patent hearings that are scheduled.
The UK Patent Library Network provide users with local access to patent, trade mark, designs and copyright information.
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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