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Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Brazil.
Includes chapters on applying for International registrations, design representation, deferment of publication, examination, refusals and renewals.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Colombia.
Find registered designs in the UK
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Indonesia.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the Philippines.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Vietnam
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
How to assess and report B2C and B2B electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) products.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
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