Intellectual property

Designs: detailed information

• From: Intellectual Property Office, Government Digital Service, HM Revenue & Customs, Company Names Tribunal, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
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  Department for Business and Trade, Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Office for Product Safety and Standards

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Quick links

• Find a registered design
• Renew your registered design
• Design forms and fees

Apply for a design

• Register a design
• Preparing your illustrations: to disclaim or limit a part of your design
• Process for applying to register for a design

Search services

• Find a registered design
• Check the designs journal
• Designs decisions

Forms and fees

• Design forms and fees
• 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 documents
• License, mortgage, sell, change ownership and market your design

Objecting, challenging and resolving design disputes

• Defend your intellectual property
• Objecting to other people's designs
• Design: invalidation or cancellation
• Designs disputes resolution: hearings

Design protection abroad

• Protecting your UK intellectual property abroad
• Extension of UK intellectual property rights abroad

Designs Act, rules and practice

• Registered Designs Act and Rules
• Design right sections: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
• Registered Designs Examination Practice
• Designs practice notices

Research

• Intellectual property research: Designs