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Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Find registered designs in the UK
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Use this form to request for a search of the UK designs register.
How to take someone to the Patents Court for using a patent or registered design without permission.
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
How to conform with the legal requirements for placing medical devices on the market.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
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.
International trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol will no longer enjoy protection in the UK after 1 January 2021.
Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period.
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