Quote Originally Posted by Morris at Heathfield View Post
I'm not terribly familiar with British law, but in the US the phrase "intellectual property" is basically a portmanteau term covering copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. I don't recall ever hearing of design registration before.
Design Registration is something done throught the British Itellectual Property Office, formally The Patent Office which 'basically' allows a design to protect their design from being sold under another name or altered and sold under the same name.