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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New: IP Healthcheck
Use our new, improved, IP healthcheck tool to
receive your free confidential & personalised report - helping
you better manage your businesses intellectual property.
What's new
- Public holidays
- Informal consultation on patent citation and publication document delivery (professional section)
- Taking forward the Gowers Review of IP: 2nd stage consultation on Copyright Exceptions (professional section)
- TPN 5/2009 Correspondence solicited for proceedings (professional section)
- Vacancy for Financial Investigator / Proceeds of Crime Advisor
Latest news
- Mark It! December 2009
- New Chief Executive appointed at Intellectual Property Office
- New copyright proposals look to benefit educational and research institutions
- Lammy helps negotiate breakthrough on new European Patent
- Intellectual Property Office (IPO) serves up more free IP support for UK businesses