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A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
Includes chapters on definition of a design, novelty and individual character, technical function, morality and emblems.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
Standardisation explained.
Advice for building professionals involved in school building projects.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Guidance on creating design codes that promote the creation of successful places as set out in the National Model Design Code.
Supports effective delivery of planning application process.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
You can help define the scope of protection given to your registered design by including a disclaimer or limitation alongside your illustration.
The musculoskeletal disorders risk reduction through design award aims to inspire employers to make changes that reduce the risks of harm to their workers
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