Protecting your intellectual property and ensuring that you do not infringe the rights of others can be a complex issue. On this page you can access a range of articles, books and online resources providing quick links to guidance, regulations and useful organisations.
Legal Alert
The Legal Alert is a monthly checklist from BHP Information Solutions highlighting new and pending laws, regulations, codes of practice and rulings that could have an impact on your business.
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eBooks
The library provides full text access to a selection of key business and reference eBooks from leading publishers.
Logos and No Gos: How to Understand and Get the Most from Your Brand IP
Steward, Geoff (Wiley, 2007)
‘Logos and No Gos has been written to help brand owners design and implement the most effective strategy to protect their intellectual property rights and to ensure that they do not inadvertently infringe anyone else's’.
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Online articles
The library provides access to a range of articles in full text from leading business, finance and management journals.
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Useful links
Copyright Licensing Agency
UK body representing authors, publishers and artists that looks after the rights of copyright owners and provides licenses (for a fee) for legal copying of copyright material.
European Patent Office
Information on applying for patents and a directory of national patent offices.
Intellectual Asset Management
Bimonthly magazine covering business issues in intellectual propety management. It also produces a yearbook of international legislation and articles.
Intellectual property information (British Library)
The British Library's Business and IP Centre offers factsheets on patents, trade marks, copyright and registered designs, guidance on international patents and training.
Intellectual Property Office
Government centre for UK intellectual property with resources for copyright, designs, patents and trade marks. The organisation offers workshops, guidance and searchable patents, trade marks and designs databases.
International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)
The website provides information on international copyright legislation, publications and a directory of member organisations.
IPR Helpdesk
A project of the European Commission, this comprehensive website provides a vast archive of documentation, guidance and support on intellectual property rights (IPR) issues. The website focuses particularly on the European Patent Office, and provides information on the differences in IPR law and practice within EU member states.
Small Business Update
A selection of articles on intellectual property aimed at small businesses from Small Business Update magazine.
Thomson CompuMark
Products and services from Thomson Reuters for searching, screening and tracking trademarks, designs, domain names and patents.
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Body concerned with international cooperation, agreements and treaties concerning intellectual property
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