We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Find what you or your business may need before you hire someone to act directly or indirectly on your behalf.
Find out the rules to establish the country of origin of imported and exported goods and to help identify goods which qualify for lower or no Customs Duty.
Search for a personalised number plate registration and buy it from DVLA online or at auction
Use inward processing to delay or reduce import duties or VAT on goods that you process or repair.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
The Department for Business and Trade has announced the 10 SME winners of the 2024 Made in the UK, Sold to the World Awards.
Guidance for recruiters on completing sift evaluation forms and issuing results to candidates
Use these general provisions to help you determine the origin of your products.
This guidance explains what rules of origin (RoOs) are and the changes under the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS).
Find out when to include or exclude royalties and licence fees in the customs value, and which method to use to calculate the value if you’re an importer or clearing agent.
How to enter interview results and issue these to candidates in vX. Guidance for recruiters.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Use this form to request a certified copy of a design.
Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period.
The Crown Commercial Service technology service principles help us to continually improve the way technology is bought across government and the public sector.
The MHRA was alerted by Beyond Compliance and the UK National Joint Registry (NJR) to a significantly higher revision rate observed with the ORIGIN PS patient-matched total knee replacement.
Engage with the Ministry of Defence on SKYNET Integrated Enterprise Solution, a transformation project developing and assessing options for the future delivery model for the SKYNET programme.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).