We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
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
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Find registered designs in the UK
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
New British designers to benefit from £2 million government funding to showcase their work at London Fashion Week
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Find out what makes a person an enabler of tax avoidance, and what to do about legally privileged communications.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
CMA provisionally finds Adobe’s deal to buy Figma would likely harm innovation for software used by the vast majority of UK digital designers.
Intellectual property research publications commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) covering designs.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. We’ll send you a link to a feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Don’t worry we won’t send you spam or share your email address with anyone.