Learn the basics on protecting and exploiting your IP with guidance from our experts.
What IP can do for you
Intellectual property can help you to make the most of your ideas.
What we can do for your business:
- Answer basic queries regarding patents, trademarks, copyright, design and licensing.
- Help search patent and other IP databases.
- Subject to eligibility criteria, part-fund the cost of patent filing and trademark applications or the costs of formulating licence agreements.
- Help in formulating an IP strategy.
Contact us at intellectual.property.information@gov.wales for more information.
Useful links
Use this service to apply for a UK patent through the Intellectual Property Office (IPO).
Design right automatically protects your design for 10 years after the design was first sold or 15 years after it was created - whichever is earliest.
Read the guide to getting a trade mark, including what you can and can’t register as a trade mark.
You can register the look of a product you’ve designed to stop people copying or stealing it.
A patent protects your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Copyright protects your work and stops others from using it without your permission.