EUIPO launches second design competition
The European Union Intellectual Property Office has launched the second edition of the DesignEuropa awards.
Aimed at celebrating excellence in design and design management, the awards honour outstanding design, designers and businesses that have brought their designs to the marketplace with the protection of the registered Community design (RCD).
The nomination and application period for the awards opened on November 15 and will continue until May 15, 2018.
The industry award covers RCDs owned by companies which have more than 50 employees and more than €10 million ($11.8 million) in turnover/balance sheet total, while the small and emerging companies award covers RCDs owned by companies that either have less than 50 employees and less than €10 million turnover, or were established after January 1, 2014.
Individual designers, with a “significant body of aesthetic work, created over the course of a career, which has also had a demonstrable impact on the marketplace”, are eligible for the lifetime achievement award.
Nominees in this category must currently use, or have used, the RCD system.
Full details on how to apply or nominate can be found on the DesignEuropa awards website.
The DesignEuropa awards ceremony will be held in November 2018 in Warsaw, in cooperation with the Polish Patent Office.
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