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View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
This collection brings together all documents relating to patents, trade marks, and designs monthly statistics
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
The use of pattern recognition to match gas chromatogram traces of fuel oils to classify oil type with the possibility of obtaining a successful prosecution of the polluter was investigated.
An overview of our Design Code Pathfinder programme.
Check what security features you’ll need put on tobacco product packaging.
Results from the annual armed forces continuous working patterns survey.
Benefits of patterns, how to iterate existing patterns and share research into patterns.
The European Trade Mark and Design Network has produced a common practice for use when assessing the inherent distinctiveness of figurative trade marks containing descriptive and/or non-distinctive words.
Find UK trade data from HMRC. Look up data about imports, exports, commodities and traders.
Paper prepared by Imperial College London.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
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