ACID celebrates World IP Day with videos and competition launch

Intellectual property (IP) trade association and lobby group Anti Copying in Design (ACID) is marking World IP Day today (26 April) by launching a competition and releasing a series of talking head videos from design sector luminaries and parliamentarians on the importance of IP to stimulate innovation for growth.

Every year, the World Intellectual Property Office celebrates World Intellectual Property Day to learn about the role that IP rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity.

The theme of this year’s day is ‘IP and SMEs, Taking Ideas to Market’. In celebration, ACID has produced a series of short videos with MPs, designers and manufacturers of various goods.

To view the summary of the ACID World IP Day video here.

• Minister for Intellectual Property Rt Hon Amanda Solloway, MP here
• The Shadow Minister for Trade & International Affairs Rt. Hon Emily Thornberry, MP here
• Nick Kounoupias, ACID chief counsel & IP director here
• Sebastian Conran, ACID Ambassador, CEO of Sebastian Conran Associates here
• Will Butler-Butler Adams, OBE., CEO Brompton Bikes here
• Rodney McMahon, Furniture Maker, MD of Morgan Contract Furniture here
• Rob Law, MBE., ACID Ambassador: CEO of Trunki here
• Adam Aaronson, Leading glassmaker, founding member of ACID, MD Aaronson Noon here
• Mel Holliday, Award winning kitchen designer, MD Chiselwood Designs here
• Jess Linklater, Fashion designer and director, Robe de Voyage here
• Russel Cameron, Renowned lighting designer, MD Innermost here
• Vic Lem, Make it in Design here

ACID has also launched a true or false competition and the winner will be announced on British Intellectual Property Day on 29 June. The winner will be invited to a reception at the Palace of Westminster and receive a £250 voucher with two runners up each receiving £50 vouchers To enter, complete a one-minute survey

Dids Macdonald, OBE., CEO of Anti Copying in Design, said: “Flag-flying for the UK’s incredibly talented designers on World IP Day emphasises the importance of design and design protection as we negotiate new trade deals. The UK’s designers need to be assured of a much stronger and more robust UK enforcement system now the UK designers have lost the all-important automatic EU Unregistered Community Design protection in EU27, post Brexit. We will also continue to press Government for criminal provisions for unregistered design infringement as a real deterrent against IP theft.”