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These statistics include annual data for designs, patents, trade marks and hearings for 2020, based on administrative data.
Outcome of request to invalidate, hearing held on 12 February 2024.
Guidance on designing, building and running application programming interfaces (APIs), as well as standards for delivering the best service to users.
The Registered Designs Act 1949 is the current law for the registration of designs and the protection of registered designs in the UK
Our facts and figures for 2017 and 2018, providing you with annual administrative data for designs, patents, trade marks and hearings.
The National Model Design Code provides detailed guidance on the production of design codes, guides and policies to promote successful design.
Designs correction of error notices are used to notify any third party of a proposed correction of a clerical error made by the registry prior to a correction taking place
Numbers of designs applications received per year.
The number of UK comparable trade marks and designs created, and the number opted out, following the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
Our facts and figures for 2015 and 2016, providing you with annual administrative data for designs, patents, trade marks and hearings.
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
Invalidation or cancellation, is the legal process which allows anyone to try and remove a design from our register
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