Designs Practice Notices (DPNs)
These are notices to staff in the Designs Examination Team. We use them to notify our design examiners of changes to examination practice. We will issue new notices when practice changes.
| Design Practice Notices issued since 2003. The notice number is listed in the first column. Find the number you want and then read across the row to find the title of the notice. | |
| Number | Title |
|---|---|
| 1/09 | New procedure relating to convention country priority claims in design applications |
| 6/06 | Colour in design applications |
| 5/06 | Changes to the Registered Designs Rules to Coincide with the Modernisation of Primary Legislation |
| 4/06 | Facilitating the restoration of lapsed design registrations |
| 3/06 | Ending the withdrawal of some registered designs from public inspection |
| 2/06 | Allowing Multiple Applications |
| 1/06 | Ending Novelty Examination - NB. This replaces the practices shown in DPN 01/03 & 04/03 |
| 2/04 | US priority documents in support of UK design applications |
| 1/04 | Filing requirements for design applications |
| 6/03 | Colour in design application |
| 5/03 | Designs dictated by their technical function |
| 4/03 | Requirement of novelty and individual character |
| 3/03 | Divide-outs. |
| 2/03 | Applying to register part of a product. |
| 1/03 | Component part of complex product visible in normal use. |