Ownership and Control of Intellectual Property Rights

Ownership and Control of Intellectual Property Rights is a course dedicated to how to protect and exploit your intellectual property rights for maximum commercial benefit.

Key Topics

• How to protect the intellectual property rights of your organisation
• The main types of intellectual property rights
• How to avoid infringing a third party’s intellectual property rights
• Legislative framework and case law for each type of intellectual property right
• The pitfalls – and how to avoid them
• The latest law and practice
• Copyright, patents and trade marks
• The differences between copyright and unregistered design rights
• The risks of sending infringement letters in terms of being countersued for unjustified threats – and see how the law is changing
• How useful trade marks can be to build a brand and denote the origin of your goods and services
• Issues you are facing with colleagues from other organisations to gain new ideas and perspectives

Who should Attend

• Private practice lawyers
• In-house lawyers
• Business development managers
• Commercial managers
• Company secretaries
• In-house patent lawyers