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Use this form to apply to register one or more designs divided from an earlier application.
CMA provisionally finds Adobe’s deal to buy Figma would likely harm innovation for software used by the vast majority of UK digital designers.
Intellectual property research publications commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) covering designs.
The design community is for anyone who wants to discuss and learn about the role of design in government.
Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
How to use a quasi-experimental study to evaluate your digital health product.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
The Registered Designs Act 1949 is the current law for the registration of designs and the protection of registered designs in the UK
How principal designers, principal contractors and principal accountable persons must set up and maintain a system to report building safety incidents and risks.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
Design Practice Notices (DPNs) are used to notify our stakeholders of changes in relation to examination practice.
Attitudes and behaviour of design rights owners towards infringement. Develop methodology for future use with the baseline evidence received.
Designs correction of error notices are used to notify any third party of a proposed correction of a clerical error made by the registry prior to a correction taking place
Use this form to request for a search of the UK designs register.
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