16/09/24

Boost Your Knowledge About Intellectual Propery Rights for Designers

Design-as-a-Competitive-Edge (DAACE) is a collaborative project led by Ornamo Art and Design Finland and BEDA that focuses on supporting designers to enhance their capabilities of building sustainable businesses around design.

DAACE’s target is to help designers and SMEs to utilize design effectively as part of their business strategy and as a means to create a competitive edge. The project is executed as a collaboration between the partners providing relevant IP information to designers of all the interested BEDA members (50+ Design Organisations in 28 European countries).

Specifically, the project goals are to:

• help designers and SMEs to identify what constitutes as their intangible assets.
• visualize different types of intellectual property rights that relate to design.
• support designers and SMEs to identify their unique competitive edge and build IP protection plan around that.
• help designers and SMEs understand what type of role do different IPRs play in creating comprehensive IP protection.
• give designers tools to understand the value of protected (or protectable) design.
• give concrete tools to help designers negotiate contracts with customers that reflect fair market value and where (IP) liabilities and risks are fairly distributed.
• encourage designers and SMEs to take advantage of available public funding opportunities for protecting design (such as the SME Fund).

Join the upcoming webinars

18 September: Strong Design Protection – tips and best practices from design and trademark attorneys

8 October: Licensing design– how to negotiate licensing agreements

22 October: Design counterfeits – How to battle IP infringements online

5 November: New design legislation – what should designers know

Read more about the project: beda.org/topic/ip-rights
The project is supported by EUIPO.

Last updated: 07/10/24