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View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Winners of DWP’s Disability Confident Awards crowned in night of disability employment celebration.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
How to use a before-and-after study to evaluate your digital health product.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
DASA seeks innovations to enhance operational advantage through improved self suffiency and energy innovation
Find registered designs in the UK
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Design, build and operate APIs in a consistent way
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
This toolkit is for Innovation Passport holders following the Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway (ILAP) and provides activities to support the design and development of medicines.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
London fraudster provided fictitious turnover for a business which never existed to obtain the loan
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