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Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
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…
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
How to use an interrupted time series to evaluate your digital health product.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
The Design Council was a non-departmental public body of BIS, but is now an independent organisation
Introduction to content design.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Use this form to inform us that you do not want your existing registered community design to be registered in the United Kingdom.
Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
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