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Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
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…
This report details the elements of a successful cyber exercise programme.
Supporting your team to make accessible services. Using semantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript and WAI-ARIA to make accessible interfaces.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
National Model Design Code Glossary
Includes chapters on definition of a design, novelty and individual character, technical function, morality and emblems.
Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as a wide range of benefits to the woodland owner and society.
Universal design is about access and creating a more inclusive and learning-friendly environment in school
Guidance on creating design codes that promote the creation of successful places as set out in the National Model Design Code.
A set of effective cybersecurity practices within private entities, public authorities, and the financial sector
Generic design brief and technical annexes.
The documents below relate to the Schedule 17 Planning Regime which coincides with the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act.
You can help define the scope of protection given to your registered design by including a disclaimer or limitation alongside your illustration.
How a commodity code and related additional code affects what is needed on an import or export declaration (or customs clearance request).
How to use a factorial randomised controlled trial to evaluate your digital health product.
Find out about safety and security requirements that apply to goods entering and exiting the UK.
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