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ACID Member The Monkey Puzzle Tree Awarded Second Design Guild Mark

  • May 13, 2022
ACID is pleased to announce member The Monkey Puzzle Tree has been awarded is second Design Guild Mark. An achievement to be granted such a prestigious award.
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ACID’s Partner The Jewellery Show Announce New Partnership with The Goldsmiths’ Centre

  • May 11, 2022
ACID is pleased to announce our partner The Jewellery Show is now partnered with The Goldsmiths Centre.
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ACID Supports Mental Health Awareness Week – This Year’s Theme, Loneliness

  • May 6, 2022
ACID would like to support designers emotional well being on Mental Health Awareness Week by asking for your stories and sharing them with the community, in the effort to keep loneliness at bay through such trying times. Please join the discussion.
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ACID Celebrates our Partners, Clerkenwell Design Week, returning in May 2022!

  • May 6, 2022
ACID is excited to welcome our event partner Clerkenwell Design Week back after a hiatus. It will be a design event not to miss! We are also thrilled to see ACID members showcasing.
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ACID Welcomes New Head of Membership Marion Horwood

  • May 3, 2022
ACID are delighted to announce that Marion Horwood has now joined our team as Head of Membership and Business Development. As a whole team, we are extremely excited for her to add her skillset and experience to benefit ACID and our members.
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ACID Member TriClimb Shares Recent Copying Nightmares with MPs and Peers at Westminster Event

  • April 29, 2022
ACID attends Westminster’s All Party Parliamentary Group for IP where ACID CEO Dids Macdonald and ACID Director Nick Kounoupias deliver their rousing speeches in support for UK designers and SME’s. Whilst ACID member Christine Dunford, of Triclimb, shares her devastating story of her design theft by Aldi.
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Is This a Copy…Or Just Inspiration?

  • April 29, 2022
ACID member Dan Black of Black + Blum feel their popular lunch box has been copied. Is it a copy, or just inspired?
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A Cautionary Tale for World IP Day 2022

  • April 26, 2022
ACID share’s a young artist’s story of how her work was stolen and shared on blockchain sites, as we consider the importance of young creatives on World IP Day 2022.
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Chinese Fast Fashion Giant Shein – No Respecter of Sustainability or Intellectual Property

  • April 22, 2022
Giant Shein has allegedly copied Zara designs, whilst their disrespect for IP and sustainability is being called into question yet again.
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Retail Heavyweight Settles Design Rights Infringement Claim Brought by Core Products Limited

  • April 5, 2022
ACID legal affiliate Tony Catterall of Taylors Solicitors and ACID member Core Products celebrate winning settlement against retail heavyweight.
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ASR Win Registered Design Infringement Court Case

  • April 5, 2022
ACID legal affiliate Tony Catterall of Taylors Solicitors has win against a Registered design infringement through court case.
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ACID Announces New Partnership Agreement with Jewellery Show

  • April 5, 2022
ACID is pleased to announce a new partnership with Jewellery Show. A chance for designers to showcase at the trade event and learn how to protect their designs and valuable IP.
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Dids Joins Canal Walk to Raise Funds for Furniture Makers’ Charity

  • April 4, 2022
ACID CEO Dids Macdonald bravely joins the Furniture Makers’ David Woodward for the last leg of Step2It challenge for charity.
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ACID Extends a Huge Thank You to all Calls for Views on Design IP

  • April 1, 2022
ACID is extremely thankful to all who in engaged in the IPO’s Call for Views. Read our full submission.
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NFT Case Study – Artwork Taken, Used and Sold Without Permission is Against the Law

  • March 24, 2022
ACID member reports upsetting case study of how her art was stolen and sold on Blockchain sites.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Copyright and Designs – EU Report Published

  • March 23, 2022
Our friends at IP Kat have been informed of the findings of the Margues Report on AI technologies and how it may affect Copyright and Designs.
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