GovWire

Intellectual Property (IP) rights provide the security that businesses, creators and innovators need to allow them to grow, invest in the future and foster further innovative endeavours.

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) continues to deliver and improve services, develop policies and support our people to deliver this.

As we work towards making the UK the most innovative economy in the world, the IPOs priority activities for 2023-24 are:

• delivering our core IP rights granting services
• continuing to transform the way we deliver our services through our One IPO Transformation Programme
• in Retained EU Law (REUL) and trade negotiations, seeking outcomes for theIPframework which benefit the UK economy
• evaluating our office-wide approach to supporting innovativeSMEsin making the most of theirIPassets
• developing our strategic workforce planning capability to enable us to build an organisation that is the right size and shape and has the skills and places it needs to deliver our priorities over the longer term
• undertaking a culture audit to better understand current IPO culture and design our future culture needs
• confirming the vision for the IPO and developing the IPO strategy