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Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
What clients, principal designers and principal contractors must do to follow the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
Every design task is critical at HS2 and every design discipline is covered in our interpretation of design, set out in 'HS2 Design Vision'.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Design, build and operate APIs in a consistent way
One-day GDS Academy course on the importance of research and design in government.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Indonesia.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) is now called the Responsible Technology Adoption Unit (RTA), part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). Content from RTA can be found on DSIT’s GOV.UK page.
The Design Council was a non-departmental public body of BIS, but is now an independent organisation
How to take someone to the Patents Court for using a patent or registered design without permission.
If you manage an online platform that allows user generated content, these 7 steps will help you keep your business and your users safe.
The Department for International Development has closed. It’s been replaced by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Guidance on changes to design and patent law which came into effect on 1 October 2014.
Advice for building professionals involved in school building projects.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
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