In an exciting, industry-led initiative ACID (Anti Copying in Design) is delighted to announce the launch of ACID Marketplace – a safer online IP platform where design buyers can view the latest designs created by ACID members who are supported by an enhanced ACID Design Databank and tracking system developed from ACID’s IP Tracker.

 Each year ACID receives between 18,000 and 25,000 individual designs to be logged onto its Design Databank. The date on which the designs are received is recorded and, up until now, the designs have remained confidential.  However, members now also have the option of inviting design buyers to view their designs by displaying them on ACID Marketplace, a safer online platform. This opens up all sorts of opportunities for design buying, licensing, franchising or the trading of IP rights.

 Potential design buyers need to register to access ACID Marketplace and are invited to agree to abide by the ACID Design Buyer’s Charter [this basically pledges design buyers to respect IP rights, so there should be no objections to signing up for it], in support of British original designers. ACID members may openly display their designs online to be viewed, with the safety of knowing they have first been recorded through the ACID Design Databank to secure third party independent evidence of the designs’ existence.