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Guidance for GOV.UK content publishers on how to use images and make them accessible. This chapter also includes the copyright standards for GOV.UK.

• Updated: 17 January 2023

Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.

• Overview

  A design registration helps protect the appearance of a product, such as…

• Before you apply

  Search the following design registers to check if anyone else has…

• Prepare your application

  You must prepare detailed illustrations of your design. You can include up…

• Send your application

  You must have illustrations of your design before you can apply to…

• After you apply

  The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will examine your application. If…

• When your design is registered

  Once your design is registered it will be published in the journal of…

Find registered designs in the UK

View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years

Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.

• Updated: 20 December 2023

A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.

• Updated: 4 February 2015

The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.

Traffic sign images for reproduction in printed matter, on screen or in other media.

• Updated: 17 January 2018

The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.

• Updated: 10 September 2019

Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.

• Updated: 12 June 2019