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Where OHIM, The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) or the EPO is closed, any deadline for that day, at that office, is automatically extended to the next working day. Further, new applications for a British patent, trade mark or design, or a European patent, a Community Design or a Community trade mark which have a convention deadline for filing falling on a day that Barker Brettell and the UK-IPO are closed may be filed the next working day that Barker Brettell and the UK-IPO are open. However, it should be noted that new, unprotected, ideas should not be disclosed before a patent application has been filed.