Consultation Outcome - "Call For Views On Designs"

The UK's departure from the European Union has provided the UK Government with some freedom to reshape the domestic designs regime, be that with changes to the regulations for registered designs, to unregistered design rights or to related rights such as copyright. The UK Government wants to ensure that the UK's designs regime both supports the requirements of designers and encourages overseas investment. Ongoing negotiations in respect of trade deals with international partners need to take the opinions of related parties into account. This is likely to give the UK a competitive edge.

To facilitate this, the UKIPO ran a "Call for views on designs" between January and March 2022, to which they received 57 formal responses and 288 responses to a survey. Based upon commonly recurring feedback from clients, Marks & Clerk LLP was one of these responders.