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London fashion week: a catwalk of British IP
As designers showcase their work at London Fashion Week, we look at the UK's contribution to the fashion and design industry.
Design right
The term 'design right' refers to the specific legal protection available to unregistered designs in the UK.
Summer lovin'
Summer has well and truly arrived in the UK, with temperatures hitting 30 degrees in certain areas this week.
The game of games – IP and the British digital games industry
On planet earth there are around 7.6 billion people, and a third of them play computer games.
Intelligent Textiles: how solutions find their problems
In 1913, the British textiles industry achieved its highest output – 7 billion square yards of cloth were produced.
The red sole
As a self confessed shoe obsessive one of my idols is the famous Christian Louboutin. With London Fashion week coming to an end today, I began thinking about the iconic designer and (naturally) his Intellectual Property.
Intangible foundations: how IP holds buildings up
If you want to see great British architecture – go away. Huge dollops of UK based design skills, set in concrete and framed in steel, dominate the skylines of the world’s great cities.
De-tangling the knots with IP
Many innovations today are simple adaptations of everyday items or concepts. Once imagined, they change our lives and simplify problems overnight.
Can you meet the standard?
The government receives a wide range of submissions, from a wide range of organisations and individuals, all with the overriding objective of helping us understand the particular issues facing them and their business.
Designing history: part 2
In part two of our series on the history of design rights, we look at the decision to register a design right.
Designing history: part 1
This year, the Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market (OHIM) celebrated 10 years of the Community Design. The event celebrated a relatively new development in IP - the community design right.