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View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
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The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will examine your application. If…
Once your design is registered it will be published in the journal of…
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
Intellectual property research publications commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) covering designs.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
List of design forms and fees.
DAOS is the means by which the MOD can assess the competency of design organisations.
The Office for Place are looking to work with local authorities who have an adopted design code and are keen to update or expand it.
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