{"id":3056,"date":"2016-02-12T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T12:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sib.it\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2016-02-12T12:56:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T12:56:24","slug":"i-premi-designeuropa-uami-valorizzano-il-design-registrato-come-asset-di-impresa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sib.it\/en\/flash-news\/designeuropa-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"OHIM’s DesignEuropa Awards: celebrating registered Community designs as business assets"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMMUNITY DESIGNS\u00a0OHIM’s<\/p>\n

Registered Community design holders and distinguished designers are encouraged to sumbit entries for the DesignEuropa Awards, intended to celebrate design registration as the step from idea to business asset.<\/em><\/p>\n

OHIM, the office in charge of registering Community designs, has launched the first edition of the DesignEuropa Awards<\/a> for excellence in design and in the management of design as an intellellectual property right.<\/p>\n

The awards celebrate the owners of registered community designs in an effort to promote the registration of designs in the European Union as a passage from project to production, and from idea to company asset<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Candidates
\n<\/strong><\/span>The DesignEuropa categories are:<\/p>\n

a) The Industry Award<\/em>: for the registered designs owned by companies with more than 50 employees and over \u20ac10 million in turnover\/\u20ac10 million balance sheet total.\"Design_CarL\"<\/p>\n

b) Small and Emerging Companies Award<\/em>: for the registered designs owned by companies with fewer than 50 employees and less than \u20ac10 million turnover\/\u20ac10 million balance sheet total, or for companies established after January 1 2013, regardless of size.<\/p>\n

c) Lifetime Achievement Award<\/em>: individual designers with a significant body of work of aesthetic value, created over the course of a career, which has also had a demonstrable impact on the marketplace.<\/p>\n

Candidates in categories a) e b) must be registered community designs valid at the time of sending the application, with no pending invalidity proceedings. Finalist designs must retain their validity throughout the selection and award period.<\/p>\n

Candidates in category c) must have made use of the registered community design system for their work.<\/p>\n

Who can submit entries<\/b><\/span>
\nEntries may be submitted either on the candidate’s own initiative, or by the Awards’ promoters or by any other person, entity or institution that wishes to propose a candidate.<\/p>\n

Applications<\/strong><\/span>
\nApplications must be filed by 15 July 2016.<\/p>\n

Selection process<\/strong><\/span>
\nEntries will be evaluated by a jury of experts in the fields of design, business and intellectual property rights.<\/p>\n

The jury will base their selection on the following criteria:<\/p>\n