Manual of Trade Mark Practice in use during 1989 and 1992
Relevant pages of Manual of Trade Mark Practice in use during 1989 and 1992.
Source · Transparency & FOI
GOV.UK Published FOI Responses
12,400 published responses
108 organisations
Q1 2026 latest stats period
85.5% avg on-time rate
Published Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulations responses from central government. Each entry is a public question answered and published by a government body.
Published responses
Accepted trade marks over two year period
List of accepted trade marks from 2021- 2023.
Number of FOI requests in 2021 and 2022
List of number of FOI requests and SARs received in 2021 and 2022.
Patent application submitted by individual inventors
Graphs showing trends of patent applications submitted by individual inventor.
Design invalidity proceedings filed from 2018 to 2023
Details of the number of UK Intellectual Property Office design invalidity actions filed in the last 5 years.
Ex parte design hearings statistics for 2017-2023
Statistics on the number of ex parte design hearings for 2017-2023.
Motion, multimedia, holograms, sound and pattern trademarks
Requesting updated details on number of registrations and applications for non standard trademarks.
Number of IPO Staff working abroad
Requesting details on the number of IPO staff granted permission to work abroad.
Number of oppositions registered under Class 25- 2019-2023
Statistics relating to the number of oppositions filed for trademarks registered under Class 25 (footwear and apparel).
Oppositions filed against UK Trade marks 2021-2023
Oppositions filed against UK trade marks (and UK designation of IRs) in the last two years and number of TM8 defences filed.
Patented technologies reportable to other organisations
Details of any technologies which the IPO would need to report to other companies, organisations or directly to government.
Statistics on undefended oppositions
Statistics for January 2022- June 2023 on different elements of UK oppositions.
Success rates of non-represented patent applicants
Details of the grant success rates of non-represented patent applicants versus represented patent applicants.
Trademark applications received on first day of registry business
Requesting details of how many trademark applications were received on 01 January 1876.
Brexit withdrawal agreement and trade mark or design registrations
The number of UK comparable trade marks and designs created, and the number opted out, following the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
Exhaustion of Intellectual Property Rights: Report by EY in 2019
The amount of money paid by the UKIPO to EY for the preparation and production of this report.
Figures for patent applications and grants
Patent applications and grants 1970 to 1979, and for the years 2020 and 2000.
Patent for a type-writing machine from 1866
The British patent for the first typewriter machine, invented in 1866 in England by John Pratt (patent No. 3163, 1st December 1866, according to the London Society of Arts. Other sources list it as 1863.
Patents and trade marks filed 2010 - 2020
Partial information on numbers of applications received and their outcomes.
Patents of covid testing kits
A copy or link requested to all patents for Sars CoV-2 testing kits to which the government guidance applies.
Trial on trade mark Preliminary Indicators
The IPO’s trial on preliminary indicators in trade mark oppositions.
Patent applications received during three time periods
Patent filing data for 2018 and 2019 available. Data for 2020 was not available at time of the request.
Patent processing time from filing to grant
Shortest time period for processing patents
Request for figures on FOI requests, SARs and complaints received by IPO
Freedom of Information requests, Subject Access Requests and written complaints and other enquiries received in the calendar years 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Inspections
Inspection activities performed by the Intellectual Property Office.
Lapsed patents
Request for the number of lapsed patents over a three year period and how many applications for restoration were received and restored.
Notices of complaint to the Secretary of State under s296ZE CDPA 1988
Complaints submitted for consideration by the Secretary of State under a provision of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Orphan works licenses in the UK
Request concerning any compensation for ‘orphan works’ licensed by the IPO since October 2014.
Orphan works licensing scheme
The number of requests to reproduce orphan works legally under the Orphan Works Licensing Scheme.
Prosecutions under s107(2A) Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
Comparison of prosecution figures recorded before and after the Digital Economy Act 2017.
Trade mark applications beginning with the ‘hash’ symbol [#]
Request for an unusual search for trade marks commencing with the hash symbol.
UK trade marks filed with priority claims from various countries
Trade mark priority claims from a selection of countries.
Certification trade marks
Provides information held by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) on UK certification marks in force, refused, withdrawn or being processed (as at 30 January 2020).
Requests for restoration of patent applications
Details of published GB patent applications where requests for restoration have been filed.
Trade mark hearings
The number of the various types and formats of trade mark hearings that have taken place over the last 10 years.
Trade mark oppositions
Data on oppositions which have been defended at various stages and a breakdown of represented and unrepresented applicants concerned.
Complaints and information requests
Data on the following: Complaints, data protection requests, freedom of information requests questions from parliament and correspondences from ministers.
Historical documents relating to employee inventions and compensation
Documents leading up to the 1977 Bill relating to employee inventions and compensation.
Merged trade marks
The number of merger requests filed with the UKIPO in the last 20 years.
Pay of IPO employees
Mean and median earnings for employees, including gender split and salary minima and maxima for each grade.
Trade mark filings by class
Figures of UK trade mark applications and International registrations designating the UK in the food and drinks classes.
Channels for patent payments
What channels are provided for patent payments, volume of patent payments and supplier for each channel.
Complaints against Collective Management Organizations
A list of complaints against UK CMOs (including CMOs with Memoranda of Understanding with the IPO) from 2015.
Gender split of patent applicants
Statistics of how many patents are granted to men/women in the UK per year.
National security patents
Questions about the handling of applications restricted under section 22 of the patents Act 1977.
Number of patent applications in 2017 by London borough
Data on patent applications from the London area.
CBD trade marks
The number of trade marks filed which contain "CBD" either in the trade mark or somewhere in their specification
Intellectual property piracy complaints
The number of complaints of piracy reported to the department between January 2014 and June 2019.
Staffing of Brexit work
Number of staff employed by the IPO to work primarily or specifically on Brexit preparations or policy.
Time from filing design invalidity actions to decisions
Information regarding appealed oppositions (both to the Appointed Person and to the Court)
Responses by year
Read the chart values
| Publication year | Published responses |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 33 |
| 2015 | 55 |
| 2016 | 55 |
| 2017 | 18 |
| 2018 | 49 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2023 | 18 |
| 2024 | 10 |
| 2025 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1 |
Top publishers
FOI timeliness — Q1 2026
Best on-time rates
Debt Management Office
100.0%
Serious Fraud Office
100.0%
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
99.0%
Wales Office
96.8%
Charity Commission
96.6%
Lowest on-time rates
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
50.0%
Health and Safety Executive
63.0%
Department for Business and Trade
67.0%
Cabinet Office
69.9%
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
73.6%