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This notice is aimed at individuals and small businesses who may wish to use or create knitting, sewing and related patterns.
This notice is aimed at individuals and groups who may wish to perform copyright-protected musical works live.
These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for chemical inventions
Directions to direct the form and manner in which patent, trade mark and designs forms and documents can be submitted by e-mail.
Guidance on the patent opinions service, including guidance for users of the service and our procedures for handling opinions
Publication date 6 November 2024.
Guidance on administrative procedures for patent and design right proceedings and requests for Restorations and Post-Grant.
Understand how Alibaba, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Temu and Tiktok help rights holders protect their intellectual property.
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.
The Design Right, Artist’s Resale Right and Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2023 amend provisions in 4 separate pieces of Intellectual Property (IP) legislation.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Bahrain.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in India.
Details of all notice of applications/references currently before the Copyright Tribunal.
This provides information on the examination of applications which consists of multiple components.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in ASEAN.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the Philippines.
The Marrakesh Treaty is an international legal instrument which makes it easier for blind, visually impaired and print disabled people to access works protected by copyright.
A unitary patent will protect your invention in up to 25 EU countries and will be subject to the jurisdiction of the Unified Patent Court.
Customers must no longer access programmes via EU satellite broadcasting services to avoid a charge for a UK service.
This provides information on applications forms, time periods for response and the process for deferring publication of a design.
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