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The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
Use this form to renew a design registration.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
The government technology and service design standards that GovTech Catalyst funded challenges must meet.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
How to use an N-of-1 study to evaluate your digital health product.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
Find out how to apply for the Woodland Creation Planning Grant to support your development of a proposal to create woodland.
Why it's important to evaluate digital health products that have been developed rapidly and how to choose evaluation methods in these circumstances.
Every design task is critical at HS2 and every design discipline is covered in our interpretation of design, set out in 'HS2 Design Vision'.
The Design Council was a non-departmental public body of BIS, but is now an independent organisation
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Guidance on changes to design and patent law which came into effect on 1 October 2014.
An overview of our Design Code Pathfinder programme.
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