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This Government Workplace Design Guide is one of a suite of guidance documents and standards setting out the aspirations for our workspaces.
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.
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…
Helping to create beautiful, successful and enduring places that foster a sense of community, local pride and belonging. OfP is part of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities .
The Office for Place will help shift how the planning system is used, as a shield against the worst to its future role as a champion of the best.
The GPA’s interim Deputy Director for Workplace Experience Leah Jones sheds light on the latest analysis of Civil Service workplaces.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
The Government Property Agency brought together Civil Service leaders to exchange ideas, debate trends and inform how the GPA delivers its property services.
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.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trade marks and copyright. IPO is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology , supported...
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Join the Office for Place to hear more about the Design Code Pathfinder programme, and the work our local authority and neighbourhood planning group partners have undertaken to deliver more healthy, beautiful, popular and sustainable places.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Office for Place in Stoke-on-Trent, a new arms-length body to DLUHC. The Office for Place will lead and shape the work that will enable it to support councils and communities to create...
This explains the rules governing address for service for intellectual property rights in the UK.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
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