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ACID CEO Dids Macdonald, OBE., delivered a letter to the Prime Minister, The Rt. Hon Theresa May, MP on World Intellectual Property Day yesterday. She was accompanied by Nick Kounoupias, ACID Chief Counsel and Holly Hughes of Citradi, winner of the ACID Female Design Champion Award.
Anti Copying in Design is delighted to announce Holly Hughes of Citradi as the 2018 ACID Female Design Champion on World Intellectual Property Day.
In a recent article in Cabinet Maker Dids Macdonald OBE, ACID CEO Explains How to Combat Copyists and Imitations of Infringers.
The Alliance for Intellectual Property has recently published a new paper on a number of ‘cliff-edge’ risks associated with Brexit and the UK’s future relationship with the EU.
Find out from Lindsey Child Environmental Artist how her proactive IP strategy utilises ACID Membership Benefits to support her IP Rights to ensure business growth!
Twelve designs representing both the domestic and contract furniture market have been awarded the prestigious Design Guild Mark in 2018.
Applications are now open for the ACID female design champion to mark World Intellectual Property Day.
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The UK has completed its final step for the UK joining the Hague Agreement for industrial designs. The UK instrument of ratification was deposited in Geneva today.
Following the Spring exhibition season the ACID team thought it would be good idea to share their experiences and offer some tips and guidance to ensure that any new product ranges are protected!
The European Commission recently launched a public consultation to establish its first world-wide “Counterfeit and Piracy Watch-List.”
The Furniture Makers’ Company, the furnishing industry’s charity, is appealing to the entire sector to support their welfare campaign.
Dids Macdonald OBE, speaks at INTA Conference on Designs and Intellectual Property support
ACID Members Halo Creative & Design Limited (Halo) have just won a significant victory against Comptoir Des Indes (CDI) in Chicago, Illinois with a permanent injunction following a guilty verdict in the design patent, trademark and copyright infringement suit by a federal jury sitting in Chicago in a case involving Halo’s most iconic furniture and lighting designs.
Find out from Helmm how their proactive IP strategy utilises ACID Membership Benefits to support their IP Rights to ensure business growth!
When ACID members CIMC reported that Dongguan Guanding Furniture Craft Company came to their stand offering a brochure with what were believed to have been not only exact replicas of some CIMC products but, it would appear, CIMC’s own images they contact ACID.

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