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Find registered designs in the UK

What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work

• What intellectual property is

  Having the right type of intellectual property protection helps you to…

• Protect your intellectual property

  Protecting your intellectual property makes it easier to take legal action…

Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.

• Overview

  This service will be unavailable from 6:30am on Saturday 11 May to 10pm on…

• Before you apply

  Search the following design registers to check if anyone else has…

• Prepare your application

  You must prepare detailed illustrations of your design. You can include up…

• Send your application

  You must have illustrations of your design before you can apply to…

• After you apply

  The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will examine your application. If…

• When your design is registered

  Once your design is registered it will be published in the journal of…

You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office

What to do if you think someone's used your intellectual property without permission - types of intellectual property abuse, help resolving disputes and further legal action you can take.

The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.

Get certified or uncertified copies of your patent, trade mark or design registration documents to prove that you have intellectual property rights.

Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright

View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years

Use this form to record a change of ownership or to record or cancel a licence or security

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Use this form to change a proprietor’s name or address.

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Use this form to appointment or change of agent or contact address.

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Use this form to renew a design registration.

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Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design

Use this form to apply to register one or more designs.

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Use this form to request for a search of the UK designs register.

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Use this form to apply to register one or more designs divided from an earlier application.

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Use this form to request a certified copy of a design.

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Use this form to apply by design right or copyright owner to vary terms of licence of right.

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Use this form to request to invalidate a design registration.

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