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The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
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.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
Find registered designs in the UK
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Find out what makes a person an enabler of tax avoidance, and what to do about legally privileged communications.
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