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New agreement to strengthen existing intellectual property systems.
The UK IPO and the USPTO have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-operate in their work on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs).
We have increased the checks on addresses provided in trade mark applications and introduced a process for reporting misconduct by unregulated agents.
How we are going to deliver our mission to grow the UK economy by providing an IP system that encourages investment in creativity and innovation.
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fee structure changed on 1 April 2024.
Greater access to IP-backed finance could help firms, especially small and medium enterprise (SMEs), leverage their IP to scale and grow.
The campaign supports the IPO's commitments to raise public understanding, and ultimately respect, for IP rights.
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.
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 Copyright Tribunal address has moved on the 1 July 2022.
The UK aims to promote the non-discriminatory and transparent application of IP rules within national IP regimes.
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.
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.
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