Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to limit rights of representation at the UK Intellectual Property Office to those persons with a UK or Channel Island address if there are no reciprocal rights of representation for UK practitioners before the European Union Intellectual Property Office at the end of the transition period.
Officials are having ongoing conversations with representative bodies over how to best approach the issues surrounding address for service once the transition period ends.