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This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in ASEAN.
Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs) at the end of the transition period.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in China.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the UAE.
The IPO has developed tools, guidance and teaching resources for primary, secondary, further and higher education, researchers and university management.
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.
Intellectual property insurance may not be appropriate for every business however you may find that IP insurance has numerous benefits.
This guidance explains why and how a party in an intellectual property case must notify the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about the case.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Vietnam.
A change to practice in proceedings before the Registrar’s Tribunal.
A change in practice in the registrar’s service of documents in trade mark and registered design inter partes proceedings.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Indonesia.
Directions to direct the form and manner in which patent, trade mark and designs forms and documents can be submitted by e-mail.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Pakistan.
Information to help you protect, manage, and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Saudi Arabia.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
A coexistence agreement is a legal agreement whereby two parties agree to trade in the same or similar market using an identical or similar trade mark.
We provide advice to Ministers, who decide whether the UK should submit observations and intervene in Court of Justice (CJ) cases concerning IP.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP crime survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
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