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The Parole Board Rules were introduced on 22 July 2019 and apply to all parole cases referred to the Parole Board on or after that date.
Guidelines and scenarios explaining how the IPO examines AI inventions.
Guidance from OFSI for licence applications: licensing principles, delegation frameworks, and permitted 'reasonable' payments for staff and travel expenses.
Rules and guidance for prison staff on what to do when a prisoner leaves the prison (being discharged).
This guide explains the Intellectual Property practice under the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Registered Design Rules 2006.
Guidance on the procedures the Intellectual Property Office follows when examining the formalities of patent applications.
Assessment of threats to UK financial sanctions compliance: a report from OFSI to support a risk-based approach to compliance in Legal Services.
Updates relating to the Early Legal Advice Pilot
Details of Trust Services sanctions
Trade mark opposition and invalidation proceedings.
The patents hearings manual provides guidance to the law and procedure concerning patent and design right hearings.
A list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
An unofficial consolidated version of the Design right (unregistered) sections of part 3 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
These guidelines set out how the IPO examines patent applications for medical inventions.
These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for biotechnological inventions under the Patents Act 1977.
Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to various Practice Directions, Pre-action Protocols and the Civil Procedure (Amendment No.3) 2019.
Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules relating to new Practice Direction 51ZA extension of time limits and clarification of PD 51Y.
Information on the Pakistan legal and prison systems for British prisoners.
Background and additional information to support the directions for requests for electronic uncertified copies from patent files.
The Tribunal Patents Manual explains the Intellectual Property Office's practice under the Patents Act 1977.
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