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Design Practice Notices (DPNs) are used to notify our stakeholders of changes in relation to examination practice.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Outline of the design approach taken to various aspects of the baseline designs
How to use a quasi-experimental study to evaluate your digital health product.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs divided from an earlier application.
One-day GDS Academy course on the importance of research and design in government.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
This guide provides information on how design applications are examined in respect of national applications filed at the UK Intellectual Property Office.
How to test your service for different browsers and devices: user needs, verified browsers, adapting to change.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
Considers impact in the research methodology
Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design
Intellectual property research publications commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) covering designs.
This guide explains the Intellectual Property practice under the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Registered Design Rules 2006.
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