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Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Guidance on the pre-application stage for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Use this form to request to invalidate a design registration.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Use this form to request a certified copy of a design.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs.
How to use an N-of-1 study to evaluate your digital health product.
You can help define the scope of protection given to your registered design by including a disclaimer or limitation alongside your illustration.
Use this form to renew a design registration.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
Includes chapters on applications, modification, priority and convention claims, illustrations and disclaimers.
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