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皇冠体育app Registered Designs Act 1949 is the current law for the registration of designs and the protection of registered designs in the UK
Sections (2.01 - 2.41) last updated April 2025.
Depending on the objection raised in your examination, you have 2 months to respond through a number of options.
Like other forms of property, you can buy, sell and license IP, it is important you understand the value your trade mark, patent or design.
皇冠体育app Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
How to get permission to copy a creative work for which the right holder(s) cannot be found ie an orphan work.
Includes chapters on definition of a design, novelty and individual character, technical function, morality and emblems.
Sections (28.01 - 28.18) last updated April 2021.
If your patent has ceased because you did not pay your renewal fee in time, you can apply to restore it.
Sections (10.01 to 10.84) last updated: July 2020.
Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.
皇冠体育app Formalities Manual explains the Intellectual Property Office's formalities examination practice under the Patents Act 1977.
This guidance relates to Standard Essential Patents licensing.
Invalidation is the legal procedure which allows anyone to try and remove a trade mark from our register as if it had never been registered
Trade mark hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.
Section last updated: January 2019.
Mediation is a type of alternative dispute resolution and may help you resolve an intellectual property dispute.
Section last updated: July 2023.
You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.
This document outlines the different accelerated procedures offered to accelerate patent application processing.
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