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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IP Healthcheck
Use our new, improved, IP healthcheck tool to
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you better manage your businesses intellectual property.
Protecting your ideas and inventions - Manchester
Would you like to better understand how patents and designs can be used to protect your
ideas and inventions?
What's new
- Revised patent and trade mark fees continue to encourage innovation
- Modifications to the PCT Request Form as of 1 January 2010
- Informal consultation on revision of the Code of Practice for Patent Applicants and Agents (professional section)
- TPN 6/2009 Requirement to attend hearings in relation to applications for invalidation (professional section)
IP events
- Protecting your ideas and inventions (26 January 2010)
- Protect your Intellectual Property (27 January 2010)
- Business Advice Open Day, Ipswich (4 February 2010)
- Business Advice Open Day, Cheltenham (10 February 2010)
- Creating brand value from your business, Newton-le-Willows (23 February 2010)