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Intellectual Property Office: service availability and issues

Check the availability and any issues affecting our services.

Planned downtime

There is planned downtime scheduled for Tuesday 20 May 2025 between 5pm and 8pm our external Trade mark services will be impacted.

There is planned downtime scheduled for Wednesday 21 May 2025 between 7am and 9am our external Designs services will be impacted.

Service status

There are no current issues.

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Updates to this page

Published 6 May 2025
Last updated 1920 May 2025 + show all updates
  1. There is planned downtime scheduled for Wednesday 21 May 2025 between 7am and 9am our external Designs services will be impacted.

  2. Planned maintenance on Trade Mark external services between 5pm and 8pm 20 May 2025 added.

  3. Service status section updated due to a fault with the 'Search for a trade mark (by word, phrase and/or image)'.

  4. The 'Apply to register a design' service and the 'One IPO Search' service downtime added to Planned downtime section.

  5. First published.

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