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The music industry has agreed a Code of Good Practice on Transparency in Music Streaming.
Natasha Chick, Divisional Director of the One IPO Transformation Programme, gives an important update on where we are with the programme and what’s next.
Recording artists, record labels, collecting societies, broadcasters and public venues are invited to share their views by 11 March 2024.
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fee structure changed on 1 January 2024.
Border Force seized almost one million items of counterfeit goods worth nearly £200 million in 2023, with fake electricals targeted in the run-up to Christmas.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The Intellectual Property Office wants to hear from businesses by 2 February 2024 about intellectual property’s role in helping them scale and grow.
The UK aims to promote the non-discriminatory and transparent application of IP rules within national IP regimes.
Britain's brightest young inventors shine as Intellectual Property Office and Aardman announce winners of Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Ideas Competition 2023.
If you work in the music industry and handle metadata, we want to hear from you by 30 November 2023.
Responses to the consultation will inform the options for implementation of the Treaty.
The tool is a major advance in how the IPO performs patent searches.
Requirements that come into effect from 1 January 2024
The UK Government has launched a second consultation on proposed changes to allow the Intellectual Property Office to deliver better digital services.
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published its Analysis Priorities for 2023/24.
The government has published its response to the transformation consultation which ran between 3 November 2022 and 6 January 2023.
The IPO has published a summary of responses to the questionnaire for SME, small-cap and mid-cap businesses on Standard Essential Patents.
The music industry has agreed commitments to improve music streaming metadata. The Government is also establishing a working group on creator remuneration
The new service will see the process of applying for a patent dramatically transformed over the next 12 months.
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has today published its corporate priorities for 2023-24.
Inventive youngsters at Cosby Primary School have learnt all about bees and biodiversity after winning a prestigious national competition.
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