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		<title>Besp-Oak Settle IP Row with Argos &amp; Magical</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legal battle over best-selling Vancouver range ACID Member Mosley Trading, the company behind furniture design and distribution brand Besp-Oak, has agreed settlements with retailer Argos and furniture wholesaler Magical Investments following, a trade mark dispute over its best-selling range. The agreements follow a long running legal battle over Besp-Oak’s Vancouver collection and solidifies the rights that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temple Island Win Second Court Judgment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ACID Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TEMPLE ISLAND WIN SECOND COURT JUDGMENT AGAINST NEW ENGLISH TEAS TO PROTECT THEIR FAMOUS RED BUS DESIGN ACID (Anti Copying in Design) member, Temple Island Collection Ltd, have won a second victory against New English Teas in an intellectual property action in the Patents County Court to protect their famous Red Bus image. After lengthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IP and Design – Reform is on the way!</title>
		<link>http://www.acid.eu.com/news/12/2011/ip-and-design-%e2%80%93-reform-is-on-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ACID Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A significant day for design in the UK! So, it is important that Government gets it right! Today Government is announcing its first assessment of the need for reform of the design intellectual property framework. In May 2011, in his report to the Prime Minister, Professor Hargreaves concluded that design had a &#8220;very important contribution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of some design IP registration services!</title>
		<link>http://www.acid.eu.com/news/12/2011/beware-of-unofficial-ip-%e2%80%98registration%e2%80%99-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ACID Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that there are approximately 232,000 designers in the UK, according to the Design Council, and last year the UK Intellectual Property Office granted just 4000 registered designs?  It is, therefore, not rocket science to come to the conclusion that the majority of the UK’s designers rely on unregistered design rights and informal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China &#8211; ACID Applauds Appointment of first ever Attache!</title>
		<link>http://www.acid.eu.com/news/12/2011/china-acid-applauds-appointment-of-first-ever-attache/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ACID Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The appointment of the UK’s first ever Intellectual Property (IP) Attaché will be welcomed by those who already work with China and give confidence to those businesses who are planning to working with China in the future. According to the UKIPO, “Tom Duke is the former head the IP Centre at the European Union Chamber [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOMBUS Challenges Nostalgic Heart In IP Lookalike Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.acid.eu.com/news/12/2011/bombus-challenges-nostalgic-heart-in-ip-lookalike-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ACID Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a cease &#38; desist letter from ACID Accredited law firm, McDaniel &#38; Co, Kelly Hudson confirmed that, “Bombus asserted the Copyright and Design Right protection available in their products and made clear they were willing to take action over the alleged infringements. Following pre-action correspondence with Nostalgic Heart, a successful settlement was reached ensuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking Tables Tackles CSC Imports in Copyright Infringement</title>
		<link>http://www.acid.eu.com/news/12/2011/talking-tables-tackles-csc-imports-in-copyright-infringement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of printed brochures have been destroyed following a legal challenge by ACID (Anti Copying in Design) member Talking Tables when they discovered another wholesaler, CSC Imports, selling markedly similar products through advertising and promotional material which was strikingly similar to their own Christmas feature promotional image. In a cease &#38; desist letter from ACID [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burgon &amp; Ball Allot to Win!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ACID Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proteam (UK), Solus Garden &#38; Leisure, Apollo and Greentree Garden products ALL successfully challenged by Burgon &#38; Ball in a massive IP clampdown! Gardenware industry leaders and ACID (Anti Copying in Design) members Burgon &#38; Ball are no strangers to copying and the latest to receive the weight of Burgon &#38; Ball&#8217;s IP message were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IP Doctor</title>
		<link>http://www.acid.eu.com/news/12/2011/ip-doctor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I understand that if I accuse someone of copying my work that they could sue me.  How can that happen? Depending on what you accuse somebody of, the law allows the person accused to take action against you, for what is known as a “groundless threat”.  This can happen where there are Patents, Trade Marks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACID Brief Delegation from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People&#8217;s Republic of China on IP</title>
		<link>http://www.acid.eu.com/news/11/2011/acid-brief-delegation-from-the-ministry-of-industry-and-information-technology-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china-on-ip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At an event held at the University of West London on the 17.11.11 at the request of the People’s Republic of China, Dids Macdonald, Vice-Chair of The Alliance against IP Theft and CEO of ACID (Anti Copying in Design) and Jennifer Castoldi, ACID’s Development Director gave a comprehensive presentation on UK design issues to the [...]]]></description>
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