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Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Use this form to request for a search of the UK designs register.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Use this form to request a certified copy of a design.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs for which registration has been deferred.
Use this form to renew a design registration.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
Use this form to inform us that you do not want your existing registered community design to be registered in the United Kingdom.
Documents about the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of EDF and Areva's UK EPR new nuclear power station design.
Guidance on changes to design and patent law which came into effect on 1 October 2014.
Designs correction of error notices are used to notify any third party of a proposed correction of a clerical error made by the registry prior to a correction taking place.
How to apply to the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) if you want to submit a nuclear power plant design.
Use this form to inform us that you do not want your existing International Registration designating the EU to be registered in the United Kingdom
List of design forms and fees.
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