LoginIPO Launches New Reporting Tool
Trading Standards teams can report suspected IP crime on a new webform.
Journal of Trading Standards Staff
Posted 18 August 2025 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Counterfeit Goods|National
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has launched a new online platform where enforcement bodies such as Trading Standards, as well as rights holders, can submit intelligence relating to suspected IP crime for analysis or investigation.
The website allows submissions to be received directly by the IPO’s Intelligence Gateway team, and replaces the previous Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) referral form.
Kate Caffery, Deputy Director of Intelligence and Law Enforcement at the IPO said, “This change is an important step in ensuring that police can focus their resources where they’re needed most. It will also support the IPO in coordinating IP crime intelligence nationally, helping to ensure that IP rights in the UK remain among the best protected in the world.”
This change is an important step in ensuring that police can focus their resources where they're needed most
According to the IPO, the Gateway team assess referrals and ‘prioritise submissions’ to determine the next steps – which could include further intelligence development by the IPO or onward referral for criminal investigation.
The IPO says it will liaise with PIPCU, Trading Standards and other law enforcement agencies to explore all potential avenues for disruption.
The Gateway team consists of intelligence officers and intelligence managers who are trained by the College of Policing. They work closely with the IPO’s financial investigators and intelligence analysts to develop intelligence packages appropriate for onward referral to law enforcement.
The Gateway team also works with the IPO’s IP Crime Coordinator network, who are embedded within Trading Standards regions and collaborate with law enforcement partners and stakeholders to gather intelligence and help disrupt IP crime.
Members of the public should continue to report the sale of goods they believe are counterfeit to their local Trading Standards or to Crimestoppers online.
PLEASE NOTE: This content originally appeared on our standalone Journal of Trading Standards website (www.journaloftradingstandards.co.uk), which we are gradually migrating over to the Journal's new home on the CTSI website. Please bear with us while we complete this process. This will not affect the production of our Print Edition.
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