Patents

• Law and practice

• Manual of Patent Practice
• Patents Act 1977 (340Kb)
• Patents Rules 2007 (287Kb)
• Patent practice notices
• Code of Practice for patent applicants and agents (291Kb)

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• Online services

• Intellectual Property Office web filing
• Searchable patents journal
• Publication Server
• SPC Search
• Esp@cenet

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• Managing patents

• Renewing
• Transferring or selling
• Certified & uncertified copies
• Correcting an error
• Licence of right

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• Policy

• The Community patent
• Computer-implemented inventions
• European Patent Court
• Pharmaceutical legislation
• Patent Practice Working Group

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