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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…
Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
The purpose of this exercise is to create a concept design for the building to give an indication of a possible solution to the requirements
This section shows how to translate user needs into policy and services and how you to work collaboratively with users and specialists
The design community is for anyone who wants to discuss and learn about the role of design in government.
How to make design prototypes as you build your service.
Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as a wide range of benefits to the woodland owner and society.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
This study looks at the likely price evolution of a PV-battery cooker over the next 15 years, and how that compares to traditional cooking with purchased fuels
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Use these examples to help develop your own Woodland Creation Design Plan. You can apply to the Woodland Creation Planning Grant for funding to support this.
Outlines the design-approach behind the viaduct, and how it has been developed so as to address HS2 Design Vision core values.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
Find registered designs in the UK
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