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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…
Outlines problems with drainage, recommendations for good design, drain designs available and cost effective solutions
When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.
Includes chapters on definition of a design, novelty and individual character, technical function, morality and emblems.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Advises how to take account of and address the risks associated with flooding and coastal change in the planning process.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a proposed new building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Act 1984 (as amended by the Building Safety Act 2022) and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions)...
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document B including 2020 and 2022 amendments.
How to install and use tactile paving surfaces to help visually impaired and other pedestrians recognise potential hazards and other features in roads, rail and other locations.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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