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Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
This guide explains the Intellectual Property practice under the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Registered Design Rules 2006.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
List of design forms and fees.
Descriptions and drawings of various baseline designs for primary and secondary schools
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs for which registration has been deferred.
Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
Use this form to request for a search of the UK designs register.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
Includes chapters on applications, modification, priority and convention claims, illustrations and disclaimers.
Planning and managing digital content to meet the needs the public has of government.
We are seeking views on how to make the designs framework better and encourage creativity, innovation and give the UK a competitive edge.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
Information about primary and secondary school design.
An overview of the changes to design law contained in the Intellectual Property Act 2014.
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