Apply For Design

https://www.gov.uk/apply-register-design apply to register designs (max 50) with the IPO electronically. In terms of improvement, some associated technology such as hangfire etc. may be due for review/replacement.

ICE

Internet Case Enquiry - https://www.gov.uk/search-registered-design

Find details of a UK design registered with the Intellectual Property Office.

This read only application is the official register for the IPO.

Possible improvement - DB only refreshed once a day by batch processing. Possible improvement would be to update data in real time.

DEPS

This application is for internal use only and allows examiners to process paper and electronic designs. A technical backlog has been created to cover component upgrade strategy of application versions/java version etc. Major code releases are shared with EUIPO in their central code repository. Dynatrace is currently being used on DEPS to help identify performance bottlenecks and implement performance improvements.

DesignsView

Designview is maintained by EUIPO and is used to search for designs registered in the UK by the:

World Intellectual Property Organization

European Union Intellectual Property Office

UK data is fed into this system by FTP of zipped XML files created by nightly batch job.  A complete refresh of UK data has been planned in order to address some missing fields etc that are impacting searches on DesignsView.

Dave

The Business use DAVE (for efiled applications only) for checking if any priority claims declared are exact copies of the filing submitted to the earlier country (or not) - if not, then they write to the customer for a copy It also contains a copy of the images pre-conversion into DEPS for reference. This application is for internal use only.