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Renew your registered designs
How and when to renew your design registration to make sure that your design remains protected
Skills to Succeed
Helping employers develop the skills of their workforce
Lead and motivate staff: five top tips
The following top tips will help you to enhance your leadership skills and motivate your staff
New product development process
Understand the key stages of new product development process (NPD process), from generating ideas and concepts, to product launch
Pricing strategy for a new product or service
Establishing a pricing strategy for a development project to determine how much to invest in it
Checklist: developing a product or service
Step-by-step list on how to develop new products or services, with a checklist of key things to consider before and during development
Buying and licensing other people's patents
How to buy or license a patent that someone else owns
Monitoring patent applications
How to monitor patent activity of your key competitors and check progress of new patent applications to see if you need to object or challenge them
Objecting to patent applications
How to object to a patent application if you think that it might affect your business and make observations to the UK IPO on grounds of patentability
License your designs
How to license your designs and register a design licence with the Intellectual Property Office
Avoid infringing other people's design rights
How to avoid infringing other people's design rights and search the design registers for existing design registrations
Objecting to design registrations
How you can object to a design registration, if you think it will affect your business
How you can use product design
How careful design of your products can increase your profits and reduce your production costs
How you can use graphic design and packaging design
Ways you can use graphic design to communicate ideas and business information, and the benefits of packaging design
How you can use service design
How service design can improve customer satisfaction and enhance your business' profitability and brand
How you can use workplace design
Understand how workplace design affects your employees' productivity and can lead to an improved working environment
How you can use retail design
How to use design in your retail business to increase sales, attract customers and offer them a unique shopping experience
UK sanctions regimes
Information on UK sanctions regimes currently in force
Securing IP protection in overseas markets - EcoDepo (video)
Tom Fairbairn, the CEO of Eco Depo, talks about how they protected their intellectual property in overseas markets
Benefits of trade mark registration
Discover the advantages of registering a trade mark, and how registration helps to protect your business' profits, brand and reputation