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IP Healthcheck

Take an IP Healthcheck

Use our healthcheck tool to see how IP relates to your business and how to safeguard your assets.

Wallace and Gromit competition

A World of Cracking Ideas Enter the new and exciting Cracking Ideas competition today.

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?

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Rhys Jenkins (1859-1953)

Free evening event - Click to find out more

Mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rhys Jenkins engineer, patent examiner and historian and a founder member of the Newcomen Society by attending this free event.

Intellectual Property Clinics

CIPA Clinics - click to find out more Free professional advice for innovators who are at the early stages of developing an idea.