Updates: Registered Designs Examination Practice guide

2024

8 August 2024

Part B: Absolute grounds for refusal

Sections 2.14, 2.15 and 2.16 updated

25 June 2024

Part F: Locarno classification

Paragraph 15.05 updated.

2021

2 November 2021

Part B: Absolute grounds for refusal

Miss Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi added to chapter 6.08.

14 June 2021

Part B: Absolute grounds for refusal

Miss Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor added to the list of names of the Royal Family.

29 March 2021

Part B: Absolute grounds for refusal

Chapter 6.08 updated to include Master August Brooksbank and Master Lucas Tindall added.

2020

24 January 2020

Part C: Formalities

Paragraph 7.07 amended.

2019

8 February 2019

Part F: Locarno classification

Paragraph 15.05 amended.

2018

13 August 2018

Part F: Locarno classification

Paragraph 15.04 updated.

14 June 2018

Part E: Hague Agreement for the International Registration of Industrial Designs

New section Hague Agreement added.

7 February 2018

Part C: Formalities

New paragraph under Chapter 10 added.

2017

16 March 2017

Part B: Absolute grounds for refusal

New section added.

Part C: Formalities

New section added.

Part A: Introduction

New section added.

Part D: The examination report and post-examination procedures

New section added.

Part E: Locarno classification

New section added.

Part F: Glossary

New section added.