1. Design’s role in Brand Promotion and IP Commercialisation - a UK perspective
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25 August 2016, Beijing, China
Dids Macdonald, OBE., CEO
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Vice Chair - Alliance for Intellectual Property

2. Design icons, universally known, representing British brands – communications, furniture, London, automobiles, supersonic air travel and publishing…..
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“Design is what links creativity and innovation. It shapes ideas to become practical and attractive propositions for users or customers. design may be described as creativity deployed to a specific end”
Sir George Cox

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Design management encompasses the ongoing processes, business decisions, and strategies that enable innovation and create effectively-designed products, services, communications, environments, and brands that enhance our quality of life and provide organizational success.“
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Design Economy, UK Design Council 2015

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Design management encompasses the ongoing processes, business decisions, and strategies that enable innovation and create effectively-designed products, services, communications, environments, and brands that enhance our quality of life and provide organizational success.“
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Design Economy, UK Design Council 2015

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Design management encompasses the ongoing processes, business decisions, and strategies that enable innovation and create effectively-designed products, services, communications, environments, and brands that enhance our quality of life and provide organizational success.“
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Between The UK Design economy GVA grew at a faster rate than the UK average
Design Economy, UK Design Council 2015

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Design management encompasses the ongoing processes, business decisions, and strategies that enable innovation and create effectively-designed products, services, communications, environments, and brands that enhance our quality of life and provide organizational success.“
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For every £1 businesses invest in design, they can expect over £20 in increased revenues, over £4 increase in net operating profit and over £5 in increased exports.
Design Economy, UK Design Council 2015

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Design plays a key role in the UK Creative Industries’ brands and contributes £8m to the UK’s GDP every single hour....(£71.4 billion per year)

8. Case Study One – Design & Brands
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Design …….It starts with a line says Ian Callum, Jaguar’s Director of Design

9. IAN CALLUM ON WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY…..
As a company, globally, we typically register nearly a hundred designs for every new model we produce. If we were to agitate for reform it would be in other markets…
I want to give you an idea of the process by which we turn that line into a car, the layers of intellect and craft that we apply to that first, instinctive pencil-stroke, to make it a Jaguar. I'm sure you're aware of it already, but I want to reinforce the value of great design in creating a brand and the importance of protecting it “
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Design …….It starts with a line says Ian Callum, Jaguar’s Director of Design

10. DIFFERENCES - DESIGN RIGHTS CHINA, EU AND UK
REGISTERED
Years
CHINA Design Patent 10
EU Community Design 25
UK Registered Design 25
UNREGISTERED
CHINA None*
EU EU Unregistered design 3
UK UK Unregistered design 10
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EUROPEAN UNION

11. Case Study two – Design & Brands
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NANJING BROCADE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND SCOTTISH COUTURIER SANDRA MURRAY, MBE…..
Vice Director of the Research Institute said, “We are excited about the project not just because it will help people all over the world know about Nanjing brocade but also in it being a great way to create a new modern material that has cross-cultural appeal to people of all ages”
A new brand, design fusion…
Design plays a key role in
creating a new brand – a China – UK initiative, The Scottish Brocade

12. “The Scottish Brocade”
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Design plays a key role in
creating a new brand – a China – UK initiative, The Scottish Brocade

13. Case Study three – Design & Brands The ACID brand of deterrence
Design plays a key role in
creating a new brand – in 1997 I co-founded ACID & created the ACID brand.
Why? As product designers, every time we brought out a new product it was copied
Today ACID represents thousands of designers
The objective: Education & IP awareness, Deterrence, Prevention and support
Brand recognition
Using design as a positive communicator
Simplifying legal jargon
Offering help to our micro and small, innovative designers
Why? To change the culture that it is OK to copy and free ride on the research, development & creative input of another

14. Thank you for listening
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Thank you for listening
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Design plays a key role in Brand promotion and IP commercialisation!
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