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NEW STUDENT GUIDE: Protecting Your Creativity ✅ Practical protection steps ✅ Written for students aged 11+ ✅ Real stories (GCSE project → patent owner) ✅ Knowledge that fits naturally across the curriculum Download your copy for free at: ipo.gov.uk/ip-support/
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The UK trade mark register contains more than 2.5 million active registered trade marks. How many trade marks registered in the Victorian era do you think remain active on today’s register? 👀 Comment below!
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IPO Creative Challenge: Improve It (A new series of tutor time challenges.) ⏱️ 10 minutes Choose an everyday object. 🎒 Backpack ☂️ Umbrella 💧 Water bottle Your students' challenge: improve it! What problem does it solve? What could work better?
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The Paul Smith brand is known for distinctive features including its name, signature-style logo and iconic stripe. Each help people instantly identify the brand 🦓 Classroom discussion question: What makes a brand memorable?
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📚 Teach it tomorrow A GCSE project became a patented invention and successful business. Ask students: Could one of your ideas do the same? 💭 Use Ruth Amos's story (found in our student guide) to introduce patents and innovation. Guide download link in bio 🔗
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Happy #WorldTeachersDay! Teachers spark curiosity, nurture creativity and help turn bright ideas into future innovations. Thank you to educators everywhere for inspiring young people to be creative. #ThankYouTeachers #Creativity #STEM
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Happy #BookshopDay! Every bookshop shelf is packed with creativity — and copyright helps protect the authors, illustrators and creators behind those brilliant ideas. Support your local bookshop and celebrate intellectual property in action. #Copyright#Creativity #IP
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This National Podcast Day, we’re celebrating the creativity behind every episode and the IP that protects it. Scripts, recordings, music, artwork, branding and show names all matter. Create boldly, credit properly and protect your ideas. #NationalPodcastDay #IP
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What if a university project ended up solving a global problem? Concrete Canvas founders developed a material that's now used around the world to repair and protect infrastructure. Read the full story via the #IPOblog: ow.ly/6MNo50ZIyeP
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What do these careers have in common? 🎮 Game Designer 👗Fashion Designer 🎶 Music Producer 🛠️ Engineer Answer: They all create and use intellectual property!
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🎬 Happy National Cinema Day - Today we celebrate the stories, music, characters and creativity that make the big screen special. Helping protect the people who create the cinema we love. #NationalCinemaDay #IntellectualProperty
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Need a ready-made STEM enrichment activity? The Future Innovators Toolkit helps 16-19 year olds explore innovation, intellectual property and future careers while developing creativity, problem solving and teamwork skills. Link in bio for our education website 🔗
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It’s #NationalBeachDay! Beaches are places of play, discovery and inspiration — and they need our creativity too. From reusable designs to ocean-cleaning ideas, invention and innovation can help protect the coastline we love. What would you create for cleaner beaches?
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Congratulations to all those receiving their GCSE results today! #ResultsDay2026 #UKEducation
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Happy National Radio Day! Radio brings music, stories and voices to life — and copyright helps protect the creativity behind every broadcast, song and script. Today we celebrate the sounds we love and the creators who make them possible. #NationalRadioDay #Copyright #Creativity
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Nature has been perfecting flight for millions of years. This year's IPO Innovation Award winner Saanvi Patankar asked what we could learn from it, exploring how birds like owls & hawks could inspire more sustainable aircraft design. Congratulations Saanvi! @BigBangUKSTEM #STEM
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Great opportunity for our Head of Social Research & Statistics, Pauline Beck & Senior Analyst, Brady Bowes, to speak at the @WlvBusiness 'Women & IP' event, on what patent data reveals about female participation among UK inventors. Read more: linkedin.com/pulse/patent-da…
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Huge congratulations to all participants in this year's IPO Innovation Award, and a very special well done to our 2025 winner, Saanvi Patankar! A brilliant achievement from so many talented young people. 🎉
The Big Bang@BigBangUKSTEMJun 9
Way to go Saanvi Patankar from King Edward VI School who has won @The_IPO Innovation Award winner this year!
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Finalists announced! 🎉 Nearly 100 STEM projects have been shortlisted for The #BigBangCompetition 2026, selected from almost 400 entries. 👏 Congratulations to all our finalist schools: thebigbang.org.uk/the-big-ba…
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We’re supporting the #SecondHandNotSecondBest campaign 👕 Genuine pre-loved fashion can offer quality, value and sustainability — but counterfeit listings can undermine confidence. New guidance helps shoppers spot fake fashion and buy second-hand with confidence:
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Second-hand, not second best 👕 Pre-loved fashion means real quality, better value and pieces that last - without the risks that come with buying fakes. We’re working with resale platforms and retailers to help shoppers stay protected. Link to guidance: ow.ly/z64h50Z4zkT
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The @The_IPO Innovation Award at this year's @BigBangUKSTEM Competition has officially been judged! Every single entrant demonstrated exactly what we believe: that the inventors and creators of tomorrow are already in our classrooms today.
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