{"id":64888,"date":"2015-12-02T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T11:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=98e7473cd0fbc4fd744b2b990d821fd4"},"modified":"2015-12-02T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T11:14:59","slug":"news-story-warning-intellectual-property-office-alerted-to-new-renewal-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64888","title":{"rendered":"News story: Warning: Intellectual Property Office alerted to new renewal scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Intellectual Property Office (<abbr title=\"Intellectual Property Office\">IPO<\/abbr>) has been made aware that a Latvian company was planning to use the <abbr title=\"Intellectual Property Office\">IPO<\/abbr>\u2019s own trading name on renewal \u201creminder\u201d letters asking for money for renewing UK patents and trade marks. <\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Intellectual Property Office\">IPO<\/abbr> is sending a warning to all patent and trade mark owners who are due to renew their patents and trade marks in the coming months. We ask all such rights holders to be vigilant. <\/p>\n<p>Misrepresentation to our customers will not be tolerated. The <abbr title=\"Intellectual Property Office\">IPO<\/abbr> will continue to work closely with enforcement partners until those responsible are stopped. <\/p>\n<p>If you have received correspondence that you believe to be suspicious please report it to Action Fraud using this <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud\">online reporting tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intellectual Property Office alerted to new UK patents and trade marks renewal scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}