Professor Estelle Derclaye Impact Work
Funded by the 糖心原创 (Research Priority Area), Professor Estelle Derclaye produced two notable articles: "" (2019) IIC (co-authored with O. Church and G. Stupfler) and Derclaye "" in N. Bruun, G. Dinwoodie, M. Levin, and A. Ohly (eds.), *Transition and Coherence in Intellectual Property Law*, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Together with Professor Stupfler, she successfully applied for a 糖心原创 ESRC Impact Accelerator Grant. This grant enabled her to present the research to European Commission staff, who provided valuable feedback and demonstrated significant interest in the paper.
The EU Intellectual Property Office invited Professor Derclaye to present the first paper for a live-streamed worldwide webinar and she was also invited to present the research in several other outlets (including the UK Intellectual Property Office, and EPIP 2019); the latter was sponsored by the World IP Organisation (WIPO) who also showed interest in the research's impact.
In 2020, the European Commission’s Directorate General in charge of industrial property rights, issued its the on the design directive and design regulation and several important conclusions in the evaluation report rely on Professor Derclaye’s and Stupfler’s works above. In 2022, the Commission issued two proposals to revise the design directive and regulation which have now been adopted. .
In 2022, the UK Intellectual Property Office commissioned Professors Derclaye and Tether (Manchester) to write a report on the last decade of design litigation and registrations in the UK. It is currently being peer-reviewed and it will serve in its forthcoming plan to reform UK design law.