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Publication date 19 June 2024.
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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.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Brazil.
The patents hearings manual provides guidance to the law and procedure concerning patent and design right hearings.
Basic introduction for private applicants on filing international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
How the Northern Ireland Protocol affects supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), and what it means you need to do when applying for an SPC and afterwards.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Thailand.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Australia.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Vietnam.
This guide is for patent owners who need further information on filing proceedings as an option to resolve a dispute.
Using the international patent, UK patent and cooperative patent classification schemes
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Cambodia.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in Peru.
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