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UK Designs


The ways to protect a design in UK are:

UK Registered Design

Registered Community Design

UK Design Right (unregistered)

Unregistered Community Design

UK REGISTERED

DESIGN



Protecting a design within the UK through a registration

REGISTERED COMMUNITY DESIGN



A design can be protected through the whole of the European Community

UK DESIGN RIGHT




An unregistered right that protects a design in the UK

UNREGISTERED COMMUNITY DESIGN



An unregistered right that protects a design in all 28 member states of the European Union

COMPARING UK REGISTERED DESIGN AND DESIGN RIGHT



Differences between registered rights and unregistered rights