Collection

Intellectual property: Designs

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

This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg).

Apply for a design

Search services

Forms and fees

Managing designs

Objecting, challenging and resolving design disputes

Design protection abroad

Designs Act, rules and practice

Research

Updates to this page

Published 21 September 2023
Last updated 20 December 2023 + show all updates
  1. Added link to https://www.gov.uk/guidance/protecting-your-design-abroad

  2. First published.