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If you are unable to reach agreement with a patent examiner over your patent application you can request an ex parte hearing.
Practice Amendment Notice (PAN) in respect of retailing or bringing together of services
The UK music industry has agreed to improve music streaming metadata
Maximise innovation with the Lambert toolkit collaboration and consortium agreement guidance.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Australia.
Publication date 20 November 2024.
This manual provides guidance on the administrative procedure for Patent and Design right proceedings and requests for Opinions.
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 South Korea.
These guidelines set out how the IPO examines patent applications for medical inventions.
We provide advice to Ministers, who decide whether the UK should submit observations and intervene in Court of Justice (CJ) cases concerning IP.
This glossary of terms for the trade marks tribunal provides definitions for technical or legal terms used in its practices or procedures.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
This section of the SEPs Resource Hub signposts to international SEPs-specific information, including for the purposes of patent applications.
Guidance on options for making orphan works available online for cultural heritage institutions.
Use these fact sheets to assist you with your patent application
What to do where a TPM prevents you from benefiting from a copyright exception.
UK customers may not be able to access their online content services when they visit the EU.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Brazil.
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