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Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Find out when you can zero rate books and other forms of printed matter.
HM Treasury guidance on how to appraise policies, projects and programmes.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Wymott is a prison for men near Leyland, Lancashire, including men convicted of a sex offence.
Claim relief on import duty and VAT when importing miscellaneous documents and related articles into the UK.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
The RPC and Better Regulation Executive (BRE) have compiled a collection of links that may be useful for departments to use when writing impact assessments.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs divided from an earlier application.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Intellectual property research publications commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) covering designs.
Use this form to request a certified copy of a design.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs for which registration has been deferred.
Part of a series collecting key facts and figures on new homes and regeneration.
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
Essential resources for project delivery professionals leading, managing or involved in projects or programmes in government.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
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