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Managing Directors of Anti Copying in Design, (ACID) members Lee Broom, Talking Tables and ThisisNessie joined artists and brand owners at a lunch at Westminster organised by the Alliance for Intellectual Property of which ACID is a member and Dids Macdonald is Vice Chair last week to discuss their IP frustrations with parliamentarians around blatant design infringement both on and offline and concerns about Brexit and design protection.

Convened by the Secretary of State, Dr Liam Fox, the Board of Trade will work to boost exports in the UK, attract inward investors to all regions and ensure the benefits of free trade are spread equally across the country.

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ACID Ambassador Rob Law MD of Magmatic, t/a Trunki, is no stranger to finding lookalikes of their world famous Trunki Designs all over the place and now The Sun has published a recent article showing LIDL are joining the brigade!

ACID members Talking Tables Limited were recently successful in a legal action to remove a look alike image produced by a competitor Ginger Ray.

Find out how Nannolica utilises her ACID Membership Benefits to support her IP Rights!

The Alliance for IP informs us that The European Commission has today published proposals to improve and harmonise processes to proactively detect, remove and prevent the reappearance of illegal and infringing content.

ACID member Lola Design is well known as an innovative company designing and creating original premium art and greetings cards. All of their artwork is created in house by Amanda Mountain, a Director of Lola Design, and is then applied to their products including greetings cards and wall art.

Design & IP campaigning body Anti Copying in Design (ACID) has completed a survey, the results of which will form the basis of a design sector Brexit Position Paper shortly.

Friday’s launch of the Bazalgette Creative Industries Review commissioned by Ministers Karen Bradley and Gregg Clarke and was presented to a crowded room of the great and good of the Creative Industries. Notable amongst many positive recommendations is a £500m fund to develop regional clusters.