Protecting Your Intellectual Property

This one-hour packed session by ACID (Anti Copying In Design), exclusive to Heritage Crafts members, covered a wide range of Intellectual Property issues relevant to all heritage craftspeople and heritage crafts business owners.

ACID’s CEO Dids Macdonald OBE led the session alongside Tony Catterall, Senior Partner, Head of Intellectual Property at Taylors Solicitors. Areas covered within the session included ACID’s ‘Top Ten Tips’ to help protect and enforce your IP, a brief overview of IP rights, case studies and generally how to be more IP savvy.

ACID is the UK’s leading design and intellectual property campaigning organisation, both a membership and trade association for designers and manufacturers. It provides cost-effective tips, advice, resources, and guidelines to help its members protect their intellectual property and to achieve growth through a proactive IP strategy.