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Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.

• Updated: 20 December 2023

Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.

• Overview

  A design registration helps protect the appearance of a product, such as…

• Before you apply

  Search the following design registers to check if anyone else has…

• Prepare your application

  You must prepare detailed ‘illustrations’ of your design. Illustrations…

• Apply to register your design

  You must have illustrations of your design before you can apply to…

• After you apply

  The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will examine your application. If…

• When your design is registered

  Once your design is registered it will be published in the journal of…

View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years

Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.

• Updated: 15 February 2022

The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.

Standardised designs demonstrating the application of the Department for Education’s employer's requirements for a primary, secondary and special school.

• Updated: 11 February 2026

Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.

• Updated: 30 January 2020

Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design

Outcome of request to invalidate, hearing held on 7 February 2020.

• Updated: 18 June 2025