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How to use an interrupted time series to evaluate your digital health product.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
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.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
How to use a quasi-experimental study to evaluate your digital health product.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
This report brings together the findings and conclusions of a study on Impact Evaluation (IE) commissioned by DFID
How a product complies with EU safety, health and environmental requirements, and how to place a CE marking on your product.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as a wide range of benefits to the woodland owner and society.
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
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