The Intellectual Property Office can help you get the right type of protection for your creation or invention.
Intellectual Property (IP) is created when an idea takes some tangible form. IP can mean a brand, invention, design or other kind of creation and it can be legally owned. But how can that help you? See Why use IP?
The
Intellectual Property Office is part of the Department for Business, Innovation &
Skills
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What's new
- Version 5.0 of EPO online services software available to download
- Vacancy for Technical Support Analyst
- IP Insight Edition 34, January 2010
- Revised patent and trade mark fees continue to encourage innovation
- Informal consultation on revision of the Code of Practice for Patent Applicants and Agents (professional section)
Latest news
- Glasgow Science Centre announces new cracking exhibition "Wallace and Gromit presents...A World of Cracking Ideas"
- IPeuropeAware helps North West businesses achieve their goals
- Protect your ideas, safeguard your business
- Informal consultation on patent citation and publication document delivery (professional section)
- Mark It! December 2009

