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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 guidance explains why and how a party in an intellectual property case must notify the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about the case.
Events which have an intellectual property or business focus.
The following certificates were issued on 27 March 2020 and 8 July 2020 by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
If you are unable to reach agreement with a patent examiner over your patent application you can request an ex parte hearing.
These guidelines set out how the IPO examines patent applications for medical inventions.
Publication date 20 November 2024.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Brazil.
We provide advice to Ministers, who decide whether the UK should submit observations and intervene in Court of Justice (CJ) cases concerning IP.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
A change in practice in the registrar’s service of documents in trade mark and registered design inter partes proceedings.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub signposts to international SEPs-specific information, including for the purposes of patent applications.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your Intellectual Property (IP) rights in South Korea.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
Use these fact sheets to assist you with your patent application
This manual provides guidance on the administrative procedure for Patent and Design right proceedings and requests for Opinions.
Highlighting current and emerging counterfeiting and piracy threats in the UK and overseas, including Trading Standards successful IP cases
Information on changes to IPO practice involving divisional applications.
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