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This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in ASEAN.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Brazil.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
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.
Latest information on Retained European Union Law (REUL) and intellectual property.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Qatar.
If you are unable to reach agreement with a patent examiner over your patent application you can request an ex parte hearing.
This Code of Practice is written for patent applicants and agents to identify best practices in UK patent application process.
You can make an application to amend your patent after it has been granted either with us or at the Court.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Saudi Arabia.
This guidance explains why and how a party in an intellectual property case must notify the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about the case.
These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for chemical inventions
Directions to direct the form and manner in which patent, trade mark and designs forms and documents can be submitted by e-mail.
The patents hearings manual provides guidance to the law and procedure concerning patent and design right hearings.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
Using the international patent, UK patent and cooperative patent classification schemes
Guidance on administrative procedures for patent and design right proceedings and requests for Restorations and Post-Grant.
How the Northern Ireland Protocol affects supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), and what it means you need to do when applying for an SPC and afterwards.
Information on changes to IPO practice involving divisional applications.
These guidelines set out how the IPO examines patent applications for medical inventions.
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