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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
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Outcome of request to invalidate, hearing held on 29 April 2024.
Guidance on the pre-application stage for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Find registered designs in the UK
Essential resources for project delivery professionals leading, managing or involved in projects or programmes in government.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
How we work with buyers and suppliers to improve the way technology is bought across government and the public sector.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
Councils across the country will be able to buy cheaper land to help build thousands more social and affordable homes, thanks to new Government reforms.
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