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View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Find registered designs in the UK
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs.
Find out how to use the Trader Dress Rehearsal service to help prepare for using the Customs Declaration Service to make declarations.
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
Intellectual property research publications commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) covering designs.
Product Recall for Yhong girl's Halloween dress-up star outfit sold via Amazon presenting a serious risk of choking. The product also presents flammability, entrapment and asphyxiation risks.
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.
Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design
Product Safety Reports for Dress up America costumes presenting a serious risk of entrapment, suffocation and choking.
To make the correction we are using the process set out in Section 21 of the Registered Designs Act 1949.
New British designers to benefit from £2 million government funding to showcase their work at London Fashion Week
For employers who set dress codes and employees and job applicants who may have to abide by them.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Designs correction of error notices are used to notify any third party of a proposed correction of a clerical error made by the registry prior to a correction taking place.
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