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Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
How to use a quasi-experimental study to evaluate your digital health product.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Find registered designs in the UK
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
The government has announced proposals to modernise the planning system to get Britain building.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
How to make sure that your products are properly checked for conformity and your technical documents are managed correctly.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
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