Make Your Mark
A guide to Intellectual Property for Australia’s Industrial Designers
Design Victoria is pleased to partner with IP Australia, DIA, and leading IP specialist lawyers to produce the first in a series of Design Victoria How To Kits: Make Your Mark – A guide to Intellectual Property for Australia’s Industrial Designers.
Make Your Mark – A guide to Intellectual Property for Australia’s Industrial Designers is an essential reference guide that contains practical information and case studies to explain Intellectual property protection and related issues to help industrial designers understand IP and use this knowledge to make informed IP business decisions. Key content includes:
- Get to Know Your IP
- Is It Mine Or Is It Yours
- Mind, Manufacture, Market
- End to End Check List.
Since 2003, the number of industrial design consultancies in Victoria has grown by 41 per cent with approximately 22,000 industrial designers employed in the sector. Industrial designers, including those in design, production, architecture, manufacturing and engineering, are at the cutting edge of Australia’s consumer industries. Make Your Mark contains practical information to develop the IP capabilities of this growing, economically important industry.
“Intellectual property is a key consideration for our industry, whether you are a consultant, designer-maker, inventor or represent a commercial company. When you apply your mind to creating a new and distinctive product, you are also creating IP”.
Steve Martinuzzo, Managing Director of product design and engineering agency Cobalt Niche, and Victorian President of the Design Institute of Australia.
Design Victoria would like to acknowledge the working group for their contribution in developing Make Your Mark:
- Kara Macleod – Design Victoria
- Jackie Hayward, Dana Busic and John Jenkins - IP Australia
- Trevor Choy – Choy Lawyers
- Jarmal Richard – JDR legal
- Steve Martinuzzo – CobaltNiche and Victorian President of the DIA
- Jim Antonopoulos – TANK and AGDA
- Vito Tassone – Creative Head and AGDA
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Related Links
IP Australia — www.ipaustralia.gov.au
DIA — www.design.org.au
Choy Lawyers — www.choylawyers.com.au
JDR Legal — www.jdrlegal.com.au
CobaltNiche — www.cobaltniche.com
TANK — www.tankstudio.com.au
28 October 2008