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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…
How to use an interrupted time series to evaluate your digital health product.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
How to use a quasi-experimental study to evaluate your digital health product.
How a product complies with EU safety, health and environmental requirements, and how to place a CE marking on your product.
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
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Find registered designs in the UK
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
How to ensure the products you make or import comply with the law and are safe for consumers to use.
Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
Things to consider when buying and using products.
When and how you need to register your item or apply for an exemption certificate to deal in ivory.
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