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Develop your knowledge and skills in IP at the one day training course.
Sections (117.01 - 117.31) last updated: October 2025.
Events which have an intellectual property or business focus.
This notice provides advice for anyone wishing to understand how long copyright protection lasts in new and existing works.
Revocation is the legal procedure that allows anyone to try and remove a trade mark from the UK register.
Patentability.
Actions that intellectual property rights holders and parallel exporters and to and from the European Economic Area (EEA) need to take.
Sections (16.01 - 16.37) Last updated: October 2025.
Monitor the progress of a patent application through search reports, open to the public inspection files, and caveats.
Sections (19.01 - 19.26) last updated: October 2024.
Sections (13.01 - 13.19) last updated: January 2026.
Trade mark hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.
A change in practice to costs in patents, trade mark and designs.
The UK Patent Library Network provide users with local access to patent, trade mark, designs and copyright information.
What collective and certification trade marks are and when they apply.
The Formalities Manual explains the Intellectual Property Office's formalities examination practice under the Patents Act 1977.
Understand how intellectual property crime and infringement occurs and impacts on businesses.
Section (14.01 -14.39) last updated: March 2017.
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