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Resolving patent disputes
What are the most common types of patent disputes and how to resolve them by using mediation, requesting opinions and through the UK IPO hearings
Renew your trade mark registration
You can renew UK registered trade marks every 10 years – you must apply for renewal on time to prevent your registration expiring
Dealing with hazardous WEEE
How to correctly dispose of waste electrical and electronic equipment containing hazardous substances
Pollution incident response planning
How to create a pollution incident response plan to minimise the effects of pollution incidents and save clean-up costs
Good practice to prevent pollution
Prevent pollution and costly environmental damage by using some simple environmental practices in your business
Preventing pollution from firefighting
Good planning for the unwanted event of firefighting on your business premises can help to prevent environmental harm
What is environmental damage?
Definitions of environmental damage to land, water and biodiversity and exemptions of environmental damage controls
Prevent environmental damage from your business activities
What to do if your business poses an imminent threat of environmental damage to water, land or biodiversity
How to clean up environmental damage
Your responsibilities for cleaning up and remedying environmental damage caused by your business
Packaging producer obligations - compliance schemes
How your business can use a compliance scheme to comply with the producer responsibility obligations for packaging
Packaging producer obligations - individual route
How to comply with packaging producer responsibility obligations without using a compliance scheme
Reprocessing and exporting packaging waste
How you can apply for accreditation to reprocess and export packaging waste, and what this means for your business
Buy, sell or transfer your design rights
How to buy, sell or transfer ownership of your design, and what to consider when assigning your IP rights
Protect your designs abroad
How to protect your design rights and registered designs outside the UK
Update or cancel your registered designs
How to make changes to your design registration or cancel your registered design
Intellectual property rights in different countries
Guidance on intellectual property systems in key markets throughout the world
Digital assets explained
Digital assets refers to owned material that can be stored digitally
How to protect your digital intellectual property
Copyright protection is automatic but still needs to be guarded against unauthorised use or copying
Using other people's digital assets
The use of another individual's digital intellectual property is only allowed with the permission of the owner
Intellectual property in specific sectors
In some business sectors, such as entertainment and software, IP is particularly vulnerable to infringement