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The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
List of all the tools and techniques in the toolkit.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
These cheap tools can help make policy more open.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Sets out process and expectations on pre-application discussions.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Tools for sensitive or unannounced policy areas.
Information for manufacturers of medical devices about reporting adverse incidents and field safety corrective actions to the MHRA.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
This section shows how to translate user needs into policy and services and how you to work collaboratively with users and specialists
Find registered designs in the UK
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
The panel helps ensure that, through great design, HS2 delivers real economic, social and environmental benefits for the whole country.
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.
This page provides a guide for those interested in key upcoming digital regulatory activity being explored, developed or implemented by government. It covers a range of governance activities, from legislative change to the development of co-regulatory and self-regulatory frameworks.
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