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The patents journal contains details of new UK patent applications and changes to the register. Search patents worldwide. Patenting your invention - GOV. Find out if your invention is unique or if other inventors have filed patent applications that are considered to be prior art.

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Classification search. This patent search tool allows you not only to search the PCT database of about million International Applications but also the worldwide patent collections. Return patents anytime Return patents between Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec and Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec e. To help us improve GOV. UK , we’d like to know more about your visit today. We’ll send you a link to a feedback form.

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We provide access to the largest single source of technical information in the world: our databases containing millions of patent documents. This allows you to see what already exists, find out about technical aspects of your competitors’ work or spot trends in technology. Discover the potential. How do you check for patents? A patent is a type of intellectual property that can be registered to protect the rights of how a new invention works or the method of creating it.

How to search by patent number? The owner of a patent has the right to prevent others from making, using, importing or selling the invention without prior permission. After a search has been requested an examiner will search through published patents and other documents for material against which we can assess whether or not the invention you have claimed is. List of information about Trade marks. Tell us whether you accept cookies.

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File a patent application online with EFS-web. Pay maintenance fees and learn more about filing fees and other payments.

Check application status. Resolve disputes regarding patents with PTAB. Once you’ve applie you must ask us to search your patent application to find out if your invention is new.

Once the search process has finished there will be a first publication of your patent. Use this service to apply for a UK patent through the Intellectual Property Office (IPO). Read the guide to patenting your invention if you’ve not.

Availability This search service is usually available hours a day, days a week, except for a few minutes on Tuesdays around 02:(UK time). If this is the first time you are consulting the EP Register, please have a look at the introductory video below. You should carefully search the state of the art in order to reduce the risk of subsequent cancellation. For this purpose, you can use the DPMA’s free patent database DEPATIS net, containing more than million patent publications from around the world. Learn more about our industry leading patent landscaping and analytics tool, AcclaimIP.

Distillation of data, trends, news, and top thoughts of the week in the world of Intellectual Property. Please note that the search , substantive examination and application fees are all reduced when filed online as set out below. Additional fields are available via our API for commercial use.

A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, selling and importing an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention.