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Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application.
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
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Use this form to request a certified copy of a design.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs divided from an earlier application.
Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
Get certified or uncertified copies of your patent, trade mark or design registration documents to prove that you have intellectual property rights.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
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