Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual Property Rights Statement
All Vivid Arts products are taken from initial concept to final production by the Vivid Arts team.
This process can be painstaking, ensuring the detailed final product meets the high expectations of both trade customers and end consumers. The results of this process hopefully speak for themselves!
The result is that each product is unique to Vivid Arts with all design rights being assigned to Vivid Arts.
As such, the business occasionally has no choice but to take appropriate action to stop IP infringements (in order to protect range and QC integrity).
Vivid Arts is recognised within the EBAY VERO (Verified Rights Owners) programme.
Vivid Arts Ltd vs Tom Chambers Ltd
In 2013 Vivid Arts Ltd commenced legal proceedings against Tom Chambers Ltd on allegations of copyright infringement, design right infringement and/or passing off in respect of Vivid Arts’ award winning resin based “Real Life” and “Nature’s Friend” animal range of garden ornaments by the promotion, manufacture, sale and supply of Tom Chambers’ resin based animal range of garden ornaments.
The companies issued the following statement on 22nd October 2015: –
‘Vivid Arts Limited and Tom Chambers Limited are pleased to announce that they have settled their dispute regarding allegations of design right infringement, copyright infringement and passing off.
‘Whilst the terms of the settlement are confidential, Tom Chambers Limited, without admission of liability, with effect from 19 November 2015, will no longer offer for sale its Animal Art range of products but will still accept orders for its Bronze and Pewter ranges of products.