This includes your trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights.

Do you know what intellectual property you own?

Use this IP Health Check tool to geta personalised list of actions and useful resources to help you identify what IP you own and how best to protect it.

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO)

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) supports businesses with all things IP, including advice on how to approach it in specific countries, and who to turn to for guidance in different areas of the world.
Their top tip is: Know before you go. Protect your IP before you enter an overseas market, and also carry out research to ensure you will not be infringing of anybody else’s IP in that country.

For a range of support, including advice on how to file applications and information on managing IP in Australia, South America and Asia, visit the International IP Service webpage.

Not sure if you should protect your IP overseas?

The IPO’s advice may help you decide – you can read it here, along with detailed guidance on protecting your trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights. 

IP online training tools

Make the most of these free, online training tools that can help you understand more about how IP works and how to weave it into your business planning.

More support can be found here >

Keep your IP safe from hackers

Do you know how safe your IP is from cyber threats? Read this blog from Paul Peters of the Cyber Resilience Centre for Wales for some tips on how to make your IP cyber-safe.

A chance to shape the IPO’s biggest transformation in 170 years

The IPO is embarking on what it calls its One IPO Transformation Programme – and they want to hear from businesses to understand how they can make their services work better for those that use them.

Could you spare one hour of your time to provide feedback on early prototypes of the IPO’s accounts and systems?

They also want your views on how their new Secure IP service should work, including the process of securing IP rights all the way from the application through to successful registration.

Learn more about this opportunity here. (Email [email protected] to request the document in a different format.)

If you’d like to register your interest, email ‘yes’ to: [email protected]