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Intellectual Property Office: service availability and issues

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Planned downtime

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Service status

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Updates to this page

Published 6 May 2025
Last updated 209 MayJune 2025 + show all updates
  1. Live service update for deposit account customers.

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

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

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

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

  6. First published.

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