Website Changes
Jane Lambert As you can see from the above video the Intellectual Property Office has moved to the Government portal . The new address of the site is https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office although you can get through to the new site if you key in http://www,ipo.gov.uk . The new site is not as pretty as the old site and it takes a bit of getting used to but everything that I need seems to be there. I use the site for the unofficial consolidations of The Patents Act 1977 , The Registered Designs Act 1949 , The Trade Marks Act 1994 and Parts I and II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and The Patents Rules 2007 and The Trade Marks Rules 2008 and they all seem to be there. Harder to find are the Tribunal Practice Notices which you need whenever you go before a hearing officer. These have been archived with the old website. So, too, have the patents , trade marks and some of the designs decisions . The Copyright Tribunal still