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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…
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Product Recall for Cartoon Bear Design Pet Plush Toy presenting a risk of asphyxiation.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
How to use an N-of-1 study to evaluate your digital health product.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
Descriptions and drawings of various baseline designs for primary and secondary schools
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
Design codes need to be based on a vision for how a place will develop in the future, as set out in the local plan. This vision needs to be developed with the local community and is likely to be...
Intellectual property protection is a key concern for many British designers and design-intensive companies operating in China.
Baseline design for a 180 place primary school with a 26 place nursery.
Product Safety Report for Scatter Cushion presenting a high risk of choking and suffocation.
Designs correction of error notices are used to notify any third party of a proposed correction of a clerical error made by the registry prior to a correction taking place.
How to assess a planning application when there are reptiles on or near a proposed development site.
Baseline designs and strategies for schools, including for the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP).
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