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The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
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…
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
This section shows how to translate user needs into policy and services and how you to work collaboratively with users and specialists
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
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This section helps you to understand users and their needs and begin to diagnose the policy problems and challenges that you need to fix.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
List of all the tools and techniques in the toolkit.
Find registered designs in the UK
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
These cheap tools can help make policy more open.
This section includes tools to help you move from low fidelity ideas to policies and services that can be delivered to users
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
The design community is for anyone who wants to discuss and learn about the role of design in government.
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