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Course Details
Duration
1 day
What is this course about?
Copyright, trade marks, patents and designs – the core intellectual property rights – provide essential protection for many businesses from computer software to patents for pharmaceuticals, trade mark and domain names to written specifications.
This course provides an intensely practical day’s training on the legal IP issues, which matter in practice. You will learn how to seize opportunities and maximise value; how to ensure rights are not lost and those created are protected. From licensing agreements to the rules on technology contracts under UK and EC competition law, this course is pertinent, relevant and up to date. It features clear updates to UK and EC law following Brexit.
The course is delivered by an experienced solicitor in an interactive way with plenty of opportunities for questions and discussions.
Key topics covered
- Introduction to intellectual property
- Patents
- Confidential Information and non disclosure agreements
- Licensing Agreements and contract issues for IP licensing
- Copyright/li>
- Other IP rights
Who would benefit?
Anyone involved in protection of intellectual property including:
- Commercial, marketing and procurement managers and business executives
- Inventors and creators of ideas, business models, projects, music, software and sytems
- Anyone involved in research and development
- Data handlers
- Media executives
- Patent, IP, trademarks or licensing managers or counsel
- Business development managers
- In-house lawyers
Objectives
For delegates to:
- Understand the legal principles of Intellectual Property Rights
- Understand Intellectual Property Rights in practice
- Recognise and seize opportunities
- Protect rights
- Be aware of EU law in theory and practice
The course aims to ensure delegates leave with a full range of information and skills in this area and know what action to take to ensure their business documentation contains the essential protection needed to ensure rights are kept and enhanced.
Key topics covered
1. Introduction to intellectual property
- Patents
- Trade marks
- Designs
- Copyright
- Interaction between the various rights
- Ensuring full value and avoiding disputes
2. Patents
- Registered patents for inventions in the UK and abroad
- What is protected by patent?
- Cost and value of patenting
- When to apply for patents
- How to ensure inventions are properly protected
- Licensing and exploitation of patents
3. Confidential Information and non disclosure agreements
- Practical guidance and group exercise
- Which information is confidential?
- Risks of disclosure
- Enforcement of NDA’s
- Litigation issues
- Employee and other contracts and non competition restrictions
- Ensuring NDA’s are effective
4. Licensing Agreements and contract issues for IP licensing
- R&D agreements
- Relevant law and management of IP rights
- Commercial protection in contract clauses
- Ensuring rights are properly exploited and full royalties are paid for their use
- EU and UK competition rules
- Licensing agreements including the EU technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation
5. Copyright
- Including rights in computer software and software licence agreements
- Computer software and copyright law
- What notices to place on documents
- Ownership issues and disputes
- Importance of contractual clauses in agreements
6. Other IP rights
- Trade marks and design rights
- Protection for names, sounds, colours, logos, shape of goods and their packaging by trade mark law
- Protection for unregistered rights by way of the law of passing off
- Protection of the appearance of articles by design right
- Registered design right protection in the UK and EU
In-company training
Are you interested in running this course for your team or organisation?
Our intellectual property rights courses can be delivered on an in-company basis for up to 15 people.
All in-company courses are tailored to meet the unique circumstances of the client organisation and delegates. We will take as much time as necessary upfront to understand your contract challenges and the scenarios which will be most relevant to your delegates.
We can put the focus on any area of contract law and make reference to your contracts throughout the course.
On an in-company basis delegates get the opportunity to spend time consulting with one of the UK’s leading intellectual property rights practitioners on what IP means to them and their organisation.
From the outset we will provide you with expert advice and you will be assigned your own personal training adviser who will stay with you throughout the process. Every team is different so we will provide you with a tailored training programme, designed around your team’s needs and focused on your desired outcomes.
All courses are followed up by a full training evaluation report and certificates of learning for each delegate. For groups of up to 15 delegates per course, our in-company training is a very cost-effective way to develop your people and improve team performance.
Get in touch today for a full quotation to suit your budget. To discuss your requirements in more detail with one of our friendly advisers please call on 0845 130 5714 or email one of the team at info@contractlawtraining.co.uk. Alternatively you can complete the short contact form below.