Potential legislative changes for IPO digital transformation

The One IPO Transformation programme is designed to modernise and improve the IPO’s services. By 2025, we will have replaced our existing processes with a single, integrated system for all registered IP rights (patents, trade marks and designs). This will provide customers with more efficient digital services that transform the way they interact with us.

As well as building these new services, the government needs to make sure that we have a legal framework that can support them. The current framework assumes a system built around paper forms and correspondence. We want the law to have the flexibility to adapt to new technologies, and to be more consistent in how things work across rights.

This consultation sets out changes which the government considers may be needed to achieve those goals, and seeks views on them. These changes will remove legal barriers to the IPO’s digital transformation work and address inconsistencies between the different rights.

We ask for your responses to the questions highlighted in the consultation document. The consultation is in two parts; you can respond to either or both parts.