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Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Find registered designs in the UK
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
New British designers to benefit from £2 million government funding to showcase their work at London Fashion Week
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
Find out what makes a person an enabler of tax avoidance, and what to do about legally privileged communications.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
Examples of unacceptable trade marks around protected emblems, internet domain names and your company name.
This page provides practical information to help you make the most of your IP when doing business in ASEAN.
Guidance for suppliers and dealers.
Get endorsement and approval to apply for the Global Talent visa to work in the UK as a leader in arts and culture - architecture, fashion, film, television.
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