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This guide is for businesses and sets out ways to successfully manage their intangible assets, or IP.
Using the international patent, UK patent and cooperative patent classification schemes
An unofficial consolidated version of the patents related sections of parts 5 and 6 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Performers in literary, dramatic or musical works have certain rights in how those works can then be used.
Understand how intellectual property crime and infringement occurs and impacts on businesses and consumers.
Thinking of doing business in Southeast Asia, China, Latin America, North America, Middle East, North Africa and India? Help and advice is available through our IP liaison officers (attachés).
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Canada.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Indonesia.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in Peru.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Guidance on patents hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.
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.
Customers must no longer access programmes via EU satellite broadcasting services to avoid a charge for a UK service.
These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for biotechnological inventions under the Patents Act 1977.
Publication date 9 July 2025.
This glossary of terms for the trade marks tribunal provides definitions for technical or legal terms used in its practices or procedures.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Australia.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in India.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Malaysia.
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