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Board of Trade: Patent Office and Industrial Property and Copyright Department and...
Catalogue reference: BT 209
What's it about?
BT 209
The files in this series relate to the administration of the Patent Office, to designs, patents, trademarks and copyright, and to legislation concerning them. Some of the files deal with issues with an international dimension, such as the Council...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 209
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Patent Office and Industrial Property and Copyright Department and predecessors: Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1852-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files in this series relate to the administration of the Patent Office, to designs, patents, trademarks and copyright, and to legislation concerning them. Some of the files deal with issues with an international dimension, such as the Council of Europe.
Files with the prefix IPD predominate but some files are without a prefix and the series also contains some unregistered material.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records of the Committee for Co-ordinating Departmental Policy in connection with Patented and Unpatented Inventions see BT 305
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- IPD, C, CIC, CS, E, F, IP, IPCD, POE and R file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Trade, Patent Office and Industrial Property and Copyright Department, 1965-1970
- Board of Trade, Patent Office and Industrial Property Department, 1919-1965
- Board of Trade, Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Office, 1852-1923
- Department of Trade and Industry, Patent Office and Industrial Property and Copyright Department, 1970-1974
- Department of Trade and Industry, Patent Office and Industrial Property and Copyright Department, 1983-1989
- Department of Trade, Patent Office and Industrial Property and Copyright Department, 1974-1983
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1443 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1977 Department of Trade and Industry
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3247/
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Board of Trade: Patent Office and Industrial Property and Copyright Department and predecessors: Files
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