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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 strategy sets out the government’s approach to tackling intellectual property crime and infringement for the next five years
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.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Guidance on the patent opinions service, including guidance for users of the service and our procedures for handling opinions
Thinking of doing business in Southeast Asia, China, Latin America, North America, Gulf States and India? Help and advice is available through our IP liaison officers (attachés).
Directions to direct the form and manner in which patent, trade mark and designs forms and documents can be submitted by e-mail.
Use these fact sheets to assist you with your patent application
These guidelines set out how the IPO examines patent applications for medical inventions.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
Publication date 12 June 2024.
What to do where a TPM prevents you from benefiting from a copyright exception.
Highlighting current and emerging counterfeiting and piracy threats in the UK and overseas, including Trading Standards successful IP cases
An unofficial consolidated version of the patents related sections of parts 5 and 6 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
The following certificates were issued on 27 March 2020 and 8 July 2020 by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
Publication date 19 June 2024.
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