Business Support and publications
The Intellectual Property Office Business Support team offer a range of outreach products and services to support UK businesses.
Business Support products:
Business Support publications:
- My IP - Intellectual Property Explained
(1.84Mb) - How
Licensing Intellectual Property
can help your Business
(2.43Mb) - Licensing Intellectual
Property – Checklist
(92Kb) - Confidentiality and Confidential
Disclosure
Agreements (CDA)
(84Kb) - Intellectual Property Awareness
Survey 2006
(1.86Mb)
UK Trade & Investment and Intellectual Property Office Publications
UK Trade & Investment in partnership with the Intellectual Property Office have developed a series of IP Primers to help British companies in the major markets around the world.
The IP Primers examine IPR in Brazil, China, India, Korea and Vietnam.
European Patent Office (EPO) publications
The purpose of this Inventors' Handbook is to provide you with basic guidance on all the key stages of turning an invention into a commercial product. Or perhaps we should say the key stages of turning an idea into an enterprise, if we are to widen our definition of 'invention' to include novel processes, business methods, social interactions etc.