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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.

Notice NumberTitle
6/06Colour in design applications
5/06Changes to the Registered Designs Rules to Coincide with the Modernisation of Primary Legislation
4/06Facilitating the restoration of lapsed design registrations
3/06Ending the withdrawal of some registered designs from public inspection
2/06Allowing Multiple Applications
1/06Ending Novelty Examination - NB.  This replaces the practices shown in DPN 01/03 & 04/03
2/04US priority documents in support of UK design applications
1/04Filing requirements for design applications
6/03Colour in design application
5/03Designs dictated by their technical function
4/03Requirement of novelty and individual character
3/03Divide-outs.
2/03Applying to register part of a product.
1/03Component part of complex product visible in normal use.