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Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
How to set up a limited company, appoint directors and shareholders or guarantors, and register for tax.
The home of Intellectual Property Office on GOV.UK. The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trade marks and copy…
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Guidance on how to register, manage and enforce a trade mark. A trade mark protects your brand, for example the name of your product or service.
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
What you need to do if you set up as a sole trader - check your employment status, understand your obligations, and register for tax.
Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents
Find registered designs in the UK
How to renew your patents, trade marks or registered designs: when to renew, how to renew online or renew and restore by post, how much it costs.
Who gets copyright, types of work it covers, permitted use of copyright material, how to license and sell copyright and help resolving disputes
A collection of guidance about applying for, managing and enforcing a patent. Patents help protect a product or process, for example machines and medicines.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Use this service to find goods and services that would be acceptable as part of a UK trade mark application.
List of trade mark forms and fees.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Renew a trade mark, including late renewals and restoring a trade mark
Find details of recent trade mark applications or amendments by searching the journal
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
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