Intellectual Property Academy - 17 & 24 April

This two day training course will familiarise you with the registration, management, commercialisation, defence and enforcement of your businesses’ IP assets. Our Intellectual Property Academy training is delivered by our expert solicitors, trade mark and patent attorneys, and you’ll benefit from our legal expertise in an interactive, accessible and engaging way.

What will be covered?

Trade marks and passing off

• What signs can be protected as trade marks
• Reasons why trade marks might not be registrable
• Trade mark infringement and defences
• The protection of unregistered signs

Designs

• Registered and unregistered design protection
• Strategies for registering designs
• Enforcement of design rights

Trade secrets and confidential information

• The criteria for trade secret protection and exceptions to obligations of secrecy
• Enforcement of rights in trade secrets and confidential information

Copyright

• Requirements for copyright protection
• Copyright infringement and defences
• Moral rights
• Database rights

Patents

• The requirements for an invention to be patented
• Inventions which are excluded from patent protection
• Patent claim interpretation and infringement

Who is this training for?

The Intellectual Property Academy is aimed at junior lawyers and legal professionals for whom understanding IP is an important part of their role and others for whom IP is something they want to understand better.

For more information, see our brochure here. If you have any queries, please email our events team.