Brexit and IP: Your FAQs answered

Welcome to our FAQs on Brexit and your IP. Please click the questions in the list below to read the detailed responses. If you have any questions about Brexit and your IP portfolio that aren't covered below, or would like to speak to an IP adviser for detailed responses, don't hesitate to get in touch with our Brexit taskforce.
Cloning of EU rights
Conversion applications
Renewals
Contentious proceedings
Use and reputation
- UK perspective:
- EU perspective:
Designs
If a corresponding UCD was established before 1 January 2021 through first disclosure in the EU but outside of the UK, this will not affect the validity of the continuing unregistered design.
- people resident in the UK or a qualifying country
- businesses formed under the laws of the UK or a qualifying country
Where qualification is a result of first marketing, you will need to have disclosed your design in the UK or a qualifying country.
It is not possible to have ‘dual disclosure’ of a design in both the UK and the EU, first disclosure can only be in the UK or EU. Protection will be given in the jurisdiction where first disclosure of the design occurs.
Customs AFAs
UKIPO fees
Representation
Geographical indications
Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
- MAs which have been converted from existing EMA MAs: valid across the whole UK;
- MAs granted by the EMA: valid for NI;
- MAs granted by the MHRA: valid in England, Scotland and Wales only.
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Events en webinars
[Webinar] Internationaal uitbreiden? Ontdek live hoe u met een sterke IE-aanpak uw internationale groei veiligstelt
Ontdek in ons live webinar hoe u met een effectieve intellectueel eigendoms-aanpak uw commerciële groei over de grens veiligstelt.
Publicaties
[White paper] Internationaal uitbreiden: Zo benut u intellectueel eigendom voor groei
Events en webinars
[Evenement] Wij zijn aanwezig op de MARQUES Annual Conference 2025 in Den Haag
We kijken uit naar de 39e MARQUES Annual Conference die zal plaatsvinden van 16-19 september 2025 in het World Forum in Den Haag, Nederland.