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Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
A list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Philippines.
Events which have an intellectual property or business focus.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
Your chances of obtaining a useful patent are significantly greater if you use an attorney. A patent specification is a legal document and requires specialist skills to draft properly.
The following certificates were issued on 27 March 2020 and 8 July 2020 by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
Directions to direct the form and manner in which patent, trade mark and designs forms and documents can be submitted by e-mail.
A change in practice in the registrar’s service of documents in trade mark and registered design inter partes proceedings.
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 Pakistan.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the UAE.
This guide is for businesses and sets out ways to successfully manage their intangible assets, or IP.
A change to practice in proceedings before the Registrar’s Tribunal.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Vietnam.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Brazil.
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