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New signs are published online by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This occurs every six months at the end of March and September.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
A change in practice in the registrar’s service of documents in trade mark and registered design inter partes proceedings.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the UAE.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs) at the end of the transition period.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Qatar.
The IPO's IP for business tools, training and guidance can help you create value from your ideas, turning inspiration into sustainable business success.
A coexistence agreement is a legal agreement whereby two parties agree to trade in the same or similar market using an identical or similar trade mark.
You may be required to complete a witness statement to support your request to correct an error in a trade mark application.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
A list of offences and penalties that relate to counterfeiting and piracy.
This guide is for businesses and sets out ways to successfully manage their intangible assets, or IP.
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.
Directions to direct the form and manner in which patent, trade mark and designs forms and documents can be submitted by e-mail.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
Highlighting current and emerging counterfeiting and piracy threats in the UK and overseas, including Trading Standards successful IP cases
The following certificates were issued on 27 March 2020 and 8 July 2020 by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Indonesia.
We provide advice to Ministers, who decide whether the UK should submit observations and intervene in Court of Justice (CJ) cases concerning IP.
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