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Use this form to apply to register one or more designs.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as a wide range of benefits to the woodland owner and society.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs for which registration has been deferred.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
Outline of the design approach taken to various aspects of the baseline designs
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs divided from an earlier application.
Use this form to request for a search of the UK designs register.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Tools to support the design and assess the quality of active travel interventions and schemes.
Use this form to request a certified copy of a design.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design
Collection of European Trade Mark and Design Network common practice notices.
Guidance on designing, building and running application programming interfaces (APIs), as well as standards for delivering the best service to users.
You can help define the scope of protection given to your registered design by including a disclaimer or limitation alongside your illustration.
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
Includes chapters on applications, modification, priority and convention claims, illustrations and disclaimers.
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