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Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
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…
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
How to use a before-and-after study to evaluate your digital health product.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
Outline of the design approach taken to various aspects of the baseline designs
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
What clients, principal designers and principal contractors must do to follow the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs for which registration has been deferred.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
Use this form to renew a design registration.
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