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The IPO is an active participant in WIPO’s Standing Committee on the Law of Trade Marks, Industrial Designs & Geographical Indications and meets with other participating offices at WIPO during Madrid Working Group.
The IPO participates in EUIPO Cooperation Projects, Convergence Projects and improving the quality of data in TMview. The IPO is also actively involved in EUIPO liaison meetings on Trade Marks and Classification.
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Practice Amendment Notices (PAN) announces changes to our practice, such as how we interpret a provision of the law, or how we handle handle applications: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/practice-amendment-notices-pan
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Examiners use the Manual of Trade Marks Practice, the Trade Marks Act 1994, Trade Mark Rules, case law and researches trade mark applications on the Internet. They also liaise with Patent Examiners if the trade mark is of a technical nature.
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Our main office is in Newport, South Wales, where the public can file applications and discuss possible IP protection with an IPO Advisor. In addition, we also have a front Office in London where customers can file applications.
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PATLIB UK is a network of 16 libraries around the UK that offer help and support on intellectual property as well as other business topics. They are based in local libraries and therefore open to any member of public that wishes to attend.
One of the key offerings of the network is access to support in intellectual property searching. All centres have a minimum requirement to supply assisted searches to businesses, which includes the UK trade mark database, TMview. The centres also assist with classification searching through TMclass. Many take this further however by providing lessons to guide businesses on completing basic initial searches.
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In addition to the guided searches some Patlib centres also offer a commercial trade mark searching service. This is at a low cost and is available to anyone; it is regularly used by businesses and individuals as well as IP Professionals.
As the centres are located within local libraries they make the most of free databases such as TMview and TMclass and due to lack of funding do not pay for any additional databases or tools. Our office, through the PATLIB UK Network and the British Library, takes part in numerous exchange programmes with other patent libraries around the world as in previous years.
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Our main office is in Newport, South Wales, where the public can file applications and discuss possible IP protection with an IPO Advisor. In addition, we also have a front Office in London where customers can file applications.
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We continue to communicate IP awareness to young people from primary through to secondary school. We have developed a range of curriculum-linked education resources to raise awareness of innovation, creativity and intellectual property in partnership with UK Music, Aardman Animations and the Industry Trust.
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The IPO provide reports to World Trade Organisation on TRIPS Agreement, TRIPS TRIPS responses details work done with other offices and relate to all areas of IP, reporting on activities around technology transfer and technical cooperation.
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