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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intellectual-property-fees-miscellaneous-amendments-revocation-and-transitional-provisions-rules-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/183",
  "legislation_title": "The Intellectual Property Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments, Revocation and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2026",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend various instruments (“the Fees Rules”), namely the Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989 (S.I. 1989/1130) (“the Design Right Rules”), the Patents (Fees) Rules 2007 (S.I. 2007/3292), the Trade Marks (Fees) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/1958) (“the TM Rules”), the Trade Marks (International Registration) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2206) (“the ITM Order”), the Registered Designs (Fees) Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/889) (“the RD Rules”), the Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/269) and the Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations (S.I. 2019/638) (together “the EU Exit Regulations”), to make various changes to the fees fixed by or determined under those instruments. The Fees Rules fix or determine the fees payable in respect of: (a) matters arising under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48), the Patents Act 1977 (c. 37), the Trade Marks Act 1994 (c. 26) and the Registered Designs Act 1949 (c. 88), and (b) comparable trade marks (EU), comparable trade marks (IR), re-registered designs and re-registered international designs under powers conferred by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16).\nIn particular, these Rules introduce fee increases for the fees that were fixed by or determined under the Fees Rules in relation to design right (see rule 2 and Schedule 1), patents (see rules 6 to 10, 12, 13, 15 and 16 and Schedules 2 and 3), trade marks (see rule 20 and Schedule 4), international trade marks (see rule 21 and Schedule 5) and registered designs (see rules 23, 24 and 28 and Schedule 6).\nThe fees relating to design right and registered designs are raised by between 20% and 27% from the level set out in the Design Right Rules and the RD Rules.\nThe fees relating to trade marks and international trade marks are raised by between 20% and 25% from the level set out in the TM Rules and the ITM Order. This is with the exception of the fee for requesting a statement of reasons for a decision on an international trade mark, which is increased by Schedule 5 from £20 to £125. This addresses an existing error in the ITM Order, and represents a 25% increase to the level of fee that was intended to be set out in the ITM Order when it was made.\nThe fees relating to patents are raised by between 25% and 40% from the level set out in the Patents (Fees) Rules 2007.\nThe increase in fees for designs and trade marks and for the majority of the patent fee increases is at a rate less than inflation (based upon CPI inflation of 33% between 2016 and 2024).\nRules 29 to 32 amend the EU Exit Regulations to provide that the amendments made by these Rules to the TM Rules and the RD Rules will apply in relation to comparable trade marks (EU), comparable trade marks (IR), re-registered designs and re-registered international designs which were protected in the UK with effect from IP completion day.\nRule 33 revokes the Patents, Trade Marks and Registered Designs (Fees) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/644) which reduced certain of the fees fixed by or determined under the Fees Rules to nil (or, in one case, to £1) in respect of the period beginning on 30th July 2020 and ending on 31st March 2021, and which are therefore now spent.\nRule 34 makes transitional provisions in relation to the payment of renewal fees for patents, trade marks, registered designs, comparable trade marks (EU), re-registered designs, re-registered international designs and comparable trade marks (IR).\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Legislation UK website www.legislation.gov.uk.\nA copy of this instrument, the impact assessment and the Explanatory Memorandum are available from the Intellectual Property Office, Concept House, Cardiff Road, Newport, South Wales, NP10 8QQ. The Explanatory Memorandum is also available alongside this instrument on the Legislation UK website www.legislation.gov.uk.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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