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How to use an interrupted time series to evaluate your digital health product.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
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…
You must have illustrations of your design before you can apply to…
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will examine your application. If…
Once your design is registered it will be published in the journal of…
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
Find registered designs in the UK
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
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.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Guidance on choosing evaluation study types and methods.
How to use a quasi-experimental study to evaluate your digital health product.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Part of a series collecting key facts and figures on new homes and regeneration.
Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as a wide range of benefits to the woodland owner and society.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Get certified or uncertified copies of your patent, trade mark or design registration documents to prove that you have intellectual property rights.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
What clients, principal designers and principal contractors must do to follow the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
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