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View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Find registered designs in the UK
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Intellectual property research publications commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) covering designs.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Oman.
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs divided from an earlier application.
Design Practice Notices (DPNs) are used to notify our stakeholders of changes in relation to examination practice.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
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