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How to enforce your copyright
How to protect your copyright and enforce your rights through court proceedings and mediation
What is intellectual property crime?
The different types of IP crime can be divided into digital IP crime and physical IP crime
Design infringement
How to protect your designs against infringement and take action against someone if you think they have copied your design
Advantages and disadvantages of licensing patents
Understand the pros and cons of patent licensing, including potential risks for both patent holder and licensees
Patent infringement
How to ensure that your patent is protected and what to do if you infringe another person's patent
Changing and updating your patent
If you own a patent, you must tell the Intellectual Property Office if details in the patents register are wrong or you need to change them
Renewing your patent
To keep your patent valid, you must pay the renewal fees regularly - first four years after filing and then every year up to a maximum of 20 years
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
Leniency for cartel information
How you can avoid punishment for cartel involvement by collaborating with the Competition and Markets Authority
Private litigation in competition law cases
How to bring private actions against businesses for losses incurred by breaches of competition law
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