UKIPO NEWS/UPDATES
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Guidance: Promoting innovation and growth: The IPO at work 2017/2018
The rate of innovation is exploding. Technologies and services that were beyond imagination a generation ago are now taken for granted. Intellectual property rights play a crucial role in innovation. They ensure results can be commercially exploited by the owner. Intellectual Property rights allow inventors, researchers and creators to pour... Continue reading
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Statutory guidance: Registered Designs Act and Rules
Published 13 March 2013 Last updated 3 September 2018 + show all updates 3 September 2018 Unofficial Consolidation Design Rules Document updated. 25 February 2015 Updated version of the Registered Designs Act 1949. 1 October 2014 Updated version of the Registered Designs Act 1949. 13 March 2013 First published. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/registered-designs-act-and-rules Content... Continue reading
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Trade marks manual
The trade marks manual sets out guidance on the Intellectual Property Office work practices. Each section of this manual tells you how we deal with particular actions, cases, or aspects of cases. We consider each case on its merits and fully consider all the relevant factors of a case, especially... Continue reading
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Trade marks manual
The trade marks manual sets out guidance on the Intellectual Property Office work practices. Each section of this manual tells you how we deal with particular actions, cases, or aspects of cases. We consider each case on its merits and fully consider all the relevant factors of a case, especially... Continue reading
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The Patents Act 1977 (as amended)
The Patents Act 1977 is the main law governing the patents system in the UK. An unofficial consolidation produced by Patents Legal Section, July 2018. The consolidation lays out in an easy to reference format the sections of the act, in a similar layout to the Manual of Patent Practice... Continue reading
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Schedule 5 (section 132): Crown Proceedings Act 1947 (c.44).
Consequential amendments; 1. [repealed] 2. [repealed] 3. [repealed] 4. In subsection (4) of section 4 of the Defence Contracts Act 1958, for the words from “Patents Act 1949” to the end there shall be substituted “Patents Act 1977”. 5. (1) In subsections (2) and (3) of section 10 of the... Continue reading