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Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
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Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
Includes chapters on definition of a design, novelty and individual character, technical function, morality and emblems.
A unique clothing business supported by Innovate UK offers customers the chance to co-create garments and have them made in a few days.
Lesotho's factory workers get access to HIV treatment, thanks to DFID funding
The British embassy in Harare profiles Celia Rukato, a designer who typifies so many young Zimbabweans' creativity and innovation in the face of challenges.
A competition to design a logo to unite sports clubs, fans and players behind a government campaign to kick homophobia and transphobia out of sport was launched by the Minister for Equalities Lynne Featherstone today.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Telegraph reports on one British fashion designer’s success in Japan and speaks to UKTI Japan’s senior fashion and retail advisor on how others can follow suit.
DCLG is giving a big boost to small retailers today as it opens a brand new pop-up shop in its own headquarters.
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