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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…
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
What to do when selling a vehicle: your vehicle log book (V5C), submitting the right information to DVLA, private (personalised) registration numbers.
Find out when you can zero rate books and other forms of printed matter.
How to take part in research to help improve buying and selling.
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
When and how to account for VAT when you transfer a business as a going concern (TOGC).
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
Find out about the VAT place of supply rules if your business sells digital services to private consumers.
Anyone in Northern Ireland selling medicines to the public via a website must still comply with the requirement to apply the EU common logo.
Rules for online and distance selling for businesses
List of gold coins considered as investment gold coins for VAT exemption as detailed in Group 15 to Schedule 9 of the VAT Act 1994 purposes.
Doorstep selling, regulations, written notice of the right to cancel, exemptions, penalties
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