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You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
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…
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Once your design is registered it will be published in the journal of…
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
How to use an interrupted time series to evaluate your digital health product.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
How to renew your patents, trade marks or registered designs: when to renew, how to renew online or renew and restore by post, how much it costs.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
How a product complies with EU safety, health and environmental requirements, and how to place a CE marking on your product.
Get certified or uncertified copies of your patent, trade mark or design registration documents to prove that you have intellectual property rights.
Use this form to renew a design registration.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs for which registration has been deferred.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Use this form to request to restore a registration.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
Find registered designs in the UK
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