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How to register your medical devices with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for the markets in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
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 Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
The requirements for 3D printed products will depend on whether they are classed as medical devices, personal protective equipment (PPE) or both.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
How to renew your patents, trade marks or registered designs: when to renew, how to renew online or renew and restore by post, how much it costs.
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Use this form to apply to register one or more designs.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
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Design, build and operate APIs in a consistent way
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
Information for manufacturers of medical devices about reporting adverse incidents and field safety corrective actions to the MHRA.
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