• Notice: Patent Journal special notices: 7081

    Publication date 5 February 2025. Get emails about this page Documents Patent Journal special notices: 7081, 5 February 2025 RTF, 154 KB Details These are notices which appear for a limited number of weeks. They include Intellectual Property policy announcements and recent additions to the British Library. Updates to this... Continue reading

     
  • Set up a private limited company

    A limited company is a company ‘limited by shares’ or ‘limited by guarantee’. Limited by shares Limited by shares companies are usually businesses that make a profit. This means the company: is legally separate from the people who run it has separate finances from your personal ones has shares and... Continue reading

     
  • Official Statistics: Monthly statistics: Patents, trade marks and designs: December 2024

    These statistics include monthly data for patents, trade marks and designs. Get emails about this page Documents Monthly statistics: Patents, trade marks and designs: December 2024 MS Excel Spreadsheet, 95.6 KB This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. Request an accessible format. If you use assistive... Continue reading

     
  • Decision: Design hearing decision: O/0043/25

    Outcome of request to invalidate, hearing held on 16 January 2025. Get emails about this page Documents Design Decision O/0043/25 PDF, 355 KB, 15 pages Details Litigants Shenzhen Shengtaixi Trading Co., Ltd  V  Tilco Trading PTE. Ltd Hearing Officer Allan James Note Every effort is made to ensure design hearing... Continue reading

     
  • Guidance: Monitoring patent applications

    Monitor the progress of a patent application through search reports, open to the public inspection files, and caveats. Get emails about this page Contents Overview Patent search reports OPI files Caveats Print this page Overview You can monitor a patent application to see how it is progressing, for example before... Continue reading

     
  • Chapter 6: Declaration of priority

    Chapter 6: Declaration of priority Sections (6.01 – 6.66) last updated: July 2020. Introduction 6.01 An applicant may seek to establish a “priority date” for an application in accordance with s.5 of the Patents Act 1977. The applicant must normally do this at the time of filing under rule 6(1).... Continue reading

     
  • Chapter 1: Patents and Formalities

    Chapter 1: Patents and Formalities Section (1.01 – 1.16) last updated: March 2017. Introduction 1.01 What is a patent? A patent is a monopoly right to the exclusive use of an invention. A UK patent lasts for a maximum period of 20 years dating from when the application for the... Continue reading

     
  • Chapter 9: Post publication formalities examination

    Chapter 9: Post publication formalities examination Sections (9.01 – 9.34) last updated: March 2018 Action on return from publication 9.01 The following checks should be made when you receive the “A Published” message from Publication Section to confirm; a) that the A letter and published specification have been correctly imported... Continue reading

     
  • Chapter 12: Miscellaneous

    Chapter 12: Miscellaneous Sections (12.01 to 12.100) last updated: September 2018. Introduction 12.01 This chapter covers formalities activities that may occur at any stage of the processing of an application and may not have been covered in detail elsewhere in this manual. Correction/amendment 12.02 Although the ordinary dictionary definitions of... Continue reading

     
  • Guidance: Extended Collective Licensing

    Guidance for relevant licensing bodies applying to run Extended Collective Licensing (ECL) schemes. Get emails about this page Documents Extended Collective Licensing (ECL): Guidance for relevant licensing bodies applying to run ECL schemes HTML Details This guidance has been updated to reflect the implementation into UK law of The Retained... Continue reading