Patents, trade marks, copyright and design

Discover how patents protect your inventions, secure exclusive rights, and give your business a competitive edge.

Find out how to keep your patent valid, enforce your rights, and maximise its value through licensing or sales.

Introduction to trade marking – how to choose, search for, register and protect trade marks in the UK or abroad

How to renew, amend and manage registered trade marks, add new classes of goods and services and deal with trade mark infringement

12 things that small business owners need to know in order to protect and manage their valuable trade marks

Intellectual property issues related to internet domain names, including relationship and conflicts between trade marks and domain names

Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period

Overview of the rules governing international trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol

Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs)

How to protect the value of your designs through unregistered design rights and design registration

How to protect your registered designs, manage your design rights and defend your designs against infringement

Overview of the rules governing unregistered Community designs in the UK

Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.

Guidance on the changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs

How to apply a lower rate of Corporation Tax to profits earned from patented inventions and certain other innovations

Understand how Supplementary Protection Certificates extend patent rights for medicines and plant protection products.

What is copyright, how to use this legal right to protect your creative work and what to do if someone violates it

How to use your copyright, license or assign your rights, and protect and benefit from your copyrighted work

Guidance on UK and EU copyright protection for right holders and users including business, cultural heritage institutions and consumers

The Marrakesh Treaty is an international legal instrument which makes it easier for blind, visually impaired and print disabled people to access works protected by copyright

How to use the UK orphan works licensing scheme to lawfully use creative work for which the right holder(s) cannot be found

Guidance on options for making orphan works available online for cultural heritage institutions

Protection in the EU for databases produced in the UK

UK customers may not be able to access their online content services when they visit the EU

Guidance for satellite broadcasters transmitting copyright works into the UK and from the UK to EEA states