Statutory guidance

Designs Practice Notice (DPN) 1/16: Use of representations in design applications

Use of representations when filing Registered Design applications.

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Following a recent Supreme Court Judgment, which highlighted the extent to which protection conferred by a Registered Design can be determined by the representations used in the course of submitting an application, the following guidance has been produced in order to assist applicants.

Published 1 June 2016