Consultation on changes to the UK designs framework

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1. What is your name?

Name (Required)

2. What is your email address?

3. What is your organisation/company?

Organisation (Required)

4. The Intellectual Property Office may wish to contact you to discuss your response. Would you be happy to be contacted to discuss your response?

(Required) Yes No

5. If you are an individual, are you,

(Required) A designer A design consultant An academic A legal professional A professional in another sector Other Not applicable/I'm responding on behalf of an organisation

6. If you are responding on behalf of an organisation, are you?

(Required) A design organisation An academic institution An industry or trade organisation (including legal) Any other type of organisation (please specify below) Not applicable I'm responding as an individual

7. If you are a designer or design business, which of the following best describes your main area of industry?

(Required) Architectural design (e.g. building and landscape design) Automotive and transport design Craft and artistic artisanry (e.g. ceramics, jewellery, glass making, metal work, textile crafts like embroidery) Design engineering (e.g. mechanical systems, medical device design) Digital design (e.g. web design, motion graphics) Fashion design (e.g. clothing, footwear) Graphic design (e.g. typography, advertising design) Interior design and surface pattern design (e.g. residential and interiors fabric patterns, set and stage design, fabric patterns, furnishings textiles) Product design (e.g. industrial design, consumer electronics) Other (please specify) N/A

8. Are your designs;

(Required) Always physical products Usually physical products A mixture of physical and virtual products Usually virtual products Always virtual products N/A

9. If you are responding as a design business, how many people does your business employ?

(Required) 0-1 2-9 10-49 50-249 250+ N/A

10. Approximately how many designs have you registered in the last 12 months (in your own right, on behalf of a business or on behalf of clients)? If possible, please specify approximately how many.

(Required) None 1-10 10-50 50-100 100-250 250-500 >500 N/A

11. Where are you based? If your business has more than one site, or if you work from multiple sites, please answer for the site where you work from most of the time.

(Required) UK EU Elsewhere (please specify below if choosing this option)

Consultation on changes to the UK designs framework

Introduction