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Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Outcome of request to invalidate, hearing held on 28 June 2024.
Numbers of designs applications received per year.
Naming, structuring and scoping your service, prototyping, using design patterns and design training.
This guide provides information on how design applications are examined in respect of national applications filed at the UK Intellectual Property Office.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
The design community is for anyone who wants to discuss and learn about the role of design in government.
Use of colour representation in design applications.
Benefits of patterns, how to iterate existing patterns and share research into patterns.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
The date of grant and date of publication will be available online for all UK national registered designs.
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The UK Government has launched a second consultation on proposed changes to allow the Intellectual Property Office to deliver better digital services.
These statistics include the latest two years of monthly data for patents, trade marks, and designs, based on IPO administrative data. To be published 9:30am 28 July 2022.
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