The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trade marks and copyright.We operate and maintain a clear and accessible intellectual property system in the UK, which encourages innovation and helps the economy and society to benefit from knowledge and ideas.We help people get the right type of protection for their creation or invention.

A communications consultancy with international reach. We support major brands and leading figures on strategic communications, public affairs, international affairs and digital. Over the past 11 years, Portland has earned a reputation for the high quality of our work, our team and the results we deliver, working for some of the world's most admired brands and high-profile individuals. Set up in 2001 by Tim Allan, a former senior adviser to Tony Blair and Director of Communications at BSkyB, Portland now has over 80 staff, offices in London, New York and Nairobi, and a global network. Our team is recruited from the highest levels of the media, politics and government. We offer energy, agility and focus with the capacity and international reach to deliver for clients of any size or scale. For each client and each project, we create a bespoke team. Drawn from across our communications, digital, public affairs and international practices we bring together the right skills and experience for the job. We pride ourselves on the clarity of our thinking, our ambition for our clients – and our track record of delivering results.

Spada is the UK's premier professional services PR and research consultancy, serving legal, accountancy, property, construction, insurance, wealth/asset management and actuarial firms and a wide array of professional bodies. The agency was founded in 1994 by current Chief Executive Gavin Ingham Brooke, who has over 20 years sector experience. Spada has unrivalled industry knowledge and press contacts across trade press, national and international news desks, broadcast media, newswires and online channels. Spada provides retained media relations advice, and also specialises in digital strategy, crisis readiness and management, as well as media training. The agency's dedicated research division helps clients uncover new insights in areas key to their business success, for deployment both internally and externally. Spada has twenty-five consultants in London, affiliate offices in New York and Washington, and a network of approximately 50 associates across the UK, Europe, Asia and Africa. The agency has won multiple awards for its work, and Spada's research has recently helped inform the UK Government's Professional Services Competitiveness Group, the Hunt Review of Legal Services and the FSA's report 'Professional Standards and Consumer Trust'.SpecialtiesProfessional Services PR, Legal PR, Accountancy PR, Commercial Property PR, Media training, Financial Services PR, Crisis Communications - readiness and management, Digital PR, Research and thought leadership