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Patents service updates and improvements

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Information on the improvements we’re making to the patents service, including upcoming improvements and the latest updates.

We’ve published a roadmap we’re working on over the next 12 months. These are the highest priority improvements that we’re working on now. We expect these to be done in summer / autumn 2026.

patent application improvements 
- when you submit a patent application you will get an immediate receipt of what you submitted. This ‘submission receipt’ will give you all the information you’d have in your official filing receipt and more, including any documents
- improvements to ‘check your answers’ page to include fee details and to prompt further checks

respond to an examination improvements
- additional documents upload option, allowing response letter in PDF format and option to add your reference to the response 

improvements to account sign up
- introduce a better process for linking your account to your patents when you sign up

Contingency filing service – ahead of retiring the legacy patents services, we are developing a contingency filing service. This will allow customers to submit patent applications to the IPO if the new patents service is unavailable

We have made the following improvements to the whole service: 

  • since the service launched, we have been working to reduce the amount of disruption for customers when we make service updates. This release was our first ‘zero downtime deployment’, which means we did not have to take the service into maintenance for this release. While we will continue to have some service maintenance windows in the future, these will start to become increasingly rare as we automate more of our technical processes. We will also be able to introduce new features, fixes and improvements more quickly and reliably.

    • We have made the following improvements to the Apply for a patent service: 

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