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Intellectual property Designs

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Design forms and fees

Introduction to designs

Intellectual property and your work
Register a design
Design right
Using somebody else's intellectual property
IP for business: events, guidance, tools and case studies
IP in education
Seeking intellectual property advice
Why you should use an IP attorney

Apply for a design

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Application to register one or more designs
Preparing your illustrations: to disclaim or limit a part of your design

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Designs decisions

Forms and fees

Design forms and fees
Intellectual Property Office fee sheets
How to file documents with the Intellectual Property Office
Intellectual Property Office: how to pay us

Managing designs

Update or cancel your registered designs
Renew your registered design
Get copies of patent, trade mark or design registration documents
Warning: misleading invoices
License, mortgage, sell, change ownership and market your design

Objecting, challenging and resolving design disputes

Defend your intellectual property
Intellectual property crime and infringement
Valuing your intellectual property
Objecting to other people's designs
Intellectual property mediation
Designs disputes resolution: hearings
Designs decisions

Design protection abroad

Protecting your UK intellectual property abroad
IP protection abroad: country guides
Extension of UK intellectual property rights abroad

Law and practice

Registered Designs Act and Rules
Designs Statutory Instruments
Designs directions
Registered Designs Examination Practice
Designs practice notices
Design convergence programme: common practice notices
Intellectual property offences
Designs decisions
1 October 2014: Changes to design and patent law
References to the Court of Justice of the European Union
Design right sections: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Research

Intellectual property research: Designs
Intellectual property research: IP in general

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