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Guidance: Requests for opinions: 2024

Information about opinions requests we have received this year.

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Decision: Design hearing decision: O/0091/25

Outcome of request to invalidate, hearing held on 31 January 2025.

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Guidance: Requests for opinions: 2024

Information about opinions requests we have received this year.

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Notice: Trade marks and designs: hearing diaries

Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.

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Notice: Patent Journal special notices: 7081

Publication date 5 February 2025.

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Set up a private limited company

Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company

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Decision: Trade mark disputes: unpaid costs orders

A list of unpaid costs following inter parte hearings about intellectual property.

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Transparency data: People survey results 2024

This report presents the results from the Civil service people survey 2024.

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Guidance: Requests for opinions: 2024

Information about opinions requests we have received this year.

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Official Statistics: Monthly statistics: Patents, trade marks and designs: December 2024

These statistics include monthly data for patents, trade marks and designs.

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Guidance: Examining patent applications relating to artificial intelligence (AI) inventions

Guidelines and scenarios explaining how the IPO examines AI inventions.

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Guidance: Intellectual Property Office: privacy notices

Privacy notices regarding personal data processed by the IPO for the administration of IP rights, or data processed under a contract or consent

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Transparency data: People survey results 2023

This report presents the results from the Civil service people survey 2023.

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Notice: Patent Journal special notices: 7080

Publication date 29 January 2025.

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Decision: Design hearing decision: O/0043/25

Outcome of request to invalidate, hearing held on 16 January 2025.

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Decision: Trade mark disputes: unpaid costs orders

A list of unpaid costs following inter parte hearings about intellectual property.

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Notice: Trade marks and designs: hearing diaries

Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.

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Notice: Trade marks and designs: hearing diaries

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Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.

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Guidance: Monitoring patent applications

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Monitor the progress of a patent application through search reports, open to the public inspection files, and caveats.

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Guidance: Patents: accelerated processing

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The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.

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Guidance: Supplementary Protection Certificates

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A form of IP that extends the protection of patented active ingredients present in pharmaceutical or plant protection products.

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Guidance: Observations about patentability

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You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.

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Guidance: Requests for opinions: 2024

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Information about opinions requests we have received this year.

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Guidance: Licensing intellectual property

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Intellectual property can be bought, sold or licensed.

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Chapter 12: Miscellaneous

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Sections (12.01 to 12.100) last updated: September 2018.

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Chapter 9: Post publication formalities examination

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Sections (9.01 - 9.34) last updated: March 2018

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Chapter 1: Patents and Formalities

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Section (1.01 - 1.16) last updated: March 2017.

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Chapter 6: Declaration of priority

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Sections (6.01 - 6.66) last updated: July 2020.

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Formalities Manual (online version)

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The Formalities Manual explains the Intellectual Property Office's formalities examination practice under the Patents Act 1977.

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Guidance: Requests for opinions: 2023

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Information about opinions requests we have received this year.

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Guidance: Requests for opinions: 2024

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Information about opinions requests we have received this year.

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Guidance: Monitoring patent applications

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Monitor the progress of a patent application through search reports, open to the public inspection files, and caveats.

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Guidance: Observations about patentability

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You can make observations on the patentability of a published patent application.

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Guidance: Patents: accelerated processing

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The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.

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Search for a patent

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Search for patents and supplementary certificates (SPCs) that have been granted, published and filed

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Check the patents journal

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Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents, as well as supplementary protection certificates (SPCs)

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Notice: Patent Journal special notices: 7079

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Publication date 22 January 2025.

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Transparency data: IPO customer service standards

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The IPO customer service standards tell you the level of service you can expect and how we are performing against these targets.

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Decision: Trade mark disputes: unpaid costs orders

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A list of unpaid costs following inter parte hearings about intellectual property.

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Guidance: IP crime and enforcement for businesses

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Understand how intellectual property crime and infringement occurs and impacts on businesses.

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Guidance: Extended Collective Licensing

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Guidance for relevant licensing bodies applying to run Extended Collective Licensing (ECL) schemes.

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Notice: Patent Journal special notices: 7078

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Publication date 15 January 2025.

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Decision: Trade mark disputes: unpaid costs orders

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A list of unpaid costs following inter parte hearings about intellectual property

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Notice: Trade marks and designs: hearing diaries

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Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.

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Decision: Design hearing decision: O/0012/25

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Outcome of request to invalidate, hearing held on 8 January 2025.

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