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A checklist for fashion professionals working, performing or touring in an EU country, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs.
This series brings together all documents relating to creative industries economic estimates
Design Practice Notices (DPNs) are used to notify our stakeholders of changes in relation to examination practice.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing clothing expenses and benefits, including uniforms and protective clothing
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.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs for which registration has been deferred.
Use this form to request a certified copy of a design.
The CMA has opened an investigation into 3 fashion brands to scrutinise their ‘green’ claims.
An integral part of global supply chains is the selection by international buyers of trading partners in developing countries
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
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