Intellectual Property Office blog

• Avoiding the IP hackers: top tips on keeping your IP cyber-safe May 23, 2022
  Have you ever wondered how safe your intellectual property is when stored on your computer? We invited Paul Peters of the Wales Cyber Resilience Centre for Wales to give us some tips on how we can help make our IP cyber-safe. 
  Paul Peters
• IP and Youth – innovating for a better future April 26, 2022
   Every year, on the 26 April, World IP Day is celebrated across the globe. Hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, it has a new focus each year. The theme for 2022 is ‘Innovation and Youth’.
  Guy Robinson
• How we’re reimagining our services for the next generation April 21, 2022
  With World IP Day approaching, focusing on the theme of youth, our youngest ‘One IPO Transformation’ member talks about how our transformed services will help Generation Z and beyond.
  Abbie Dark
• Levelling Up: how we’re helping UK businesses to build through IP  March 29, 2022
  Intellectual property (IP) is crucial to the UK’s future prosperity, so supporting innovation and economic growth is at the heart of the work we do at the IPO. IPO CEO Tim Moss takes a look at how IP plays a major role in the UK’s Levelling Up agenda.
  Tim Moss
• How STEM women are graduating towards patent examining March 14, 2022
  Patent examiners are the technical experts who examine inventions coming into the IPO and apply IP law to see if a patent can be granted. Some of our female patent examiners tell us about their STEM route to a successful career.
  Imogen Percival
• The future of protecting designs: have you had your say yet? March 4, 2022
  We are currently reviewing the UK designs system and launched our call for views on the designs framework in January 2022, which runs until the 25th March. IPO Head of Design Policy, Fiona Warner explains more about what is in the call for views and why it is important for anyone working in design to […]
  Fiona Warner
• One IPO Transformation – first glimpse of the new customer accounts March 3, 2022
  Our One IPO Transformation programme is now in full swing. Project Lead Chris Mitchell shares early designs of the service and explains what you can expect from the new customer accounts.
  Chris Mitchell
• One IPO Transformation update – how IP attorneys and IP rights owners help shape our future February 1, 2022
  As the first of our new services enter testing stage, we talk to Deputy CEO David Holdsworth about why feedback from IP rights holders, IP professionals and their clients is vital to transforming how our customers interact with IPO.
  David Holdsworth
• Insights into tech careers and courses with Code First Girls January 28, 2022
  The IPO has been collaborating with Code First Girls on a series of Mass Open Online Courses (MOOCs). These courses gave an insight into some of the STEM career paths at the IPO and how people of all ages and genders can enter the field.
  Imogen Percival
• AI & IP: asking the questions January 4, 2022
  IPO CEO Tim Moss looks at how IP can best support AI innovation within the government’s National AI Strategy.
  Tim Moss