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The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Find registered designs in the UK
Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
Outline of the design approach taken to various aspects of the baseline designs
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
The skills needed by heads of graphic design in government.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
Skills a service team needs to deliver a successful user-focused service.
How to use a quasi-experimental 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.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
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