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Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
A design registration helps protect the appearance of a product, such as…
Search the following design registers to check if anyone else has…
You must prepare detailed illustrations of your design. You can include up…
You must have illustrations of your design before you can apply to…
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will examine your application. If…
Once your design is registered it will be published in the journal of…
Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.
Your technology should adapt to future demands and work with existing technologies, processes and infrastructure in your organisation.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Directions for the incorporation of the priority declaration DC1 into the designs application service.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
How to use a combination of quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate your digital health product.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs for which registration has been deferred.
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