The Ownership and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Course overview

Key topics will include the protection of:

Copyright
Trade marks, brands and domain names
Inventions
Design rights and registered designs
Know-how as confidential information

PLUS:

IP in transactions
Dealing with disputes over intellectual property

Intellectual property is a foundation of the information age and crucial to most businesses. Putting the correct systems in place both to protect the IP and your ownership of it is of the utmost importance – especially during an economic downturn.

This NEW seminar from Falconbury is designed to focus on these issues and will examine how you can protect your intellectual property through copyright, trade marks and brands, patents and design rights. If you are faced with a dispute over IP rights or ownership the final session of the programme will explain to you how this can best be dealt with in the most efficient and cost effective manner.

UNIQUE WORKSHOP
The programme also includes a practical, hands-on workshop session developed specifically for this programme to deliver practical experience of protecting know-how and drafting confidentiality agreements.

The key benefits to attending this seminar

This seminar will help you:

IMPROVE your understanding of how to protect your IPR
LEARN more about the rights of employees and ownership issues
DISCOVER more about how trade marks and domain names can be registered
GET-TO-GRIPS with the various ways in which inventions can be protected including patents and other related rights
GAIN first-hand experience of drafting confidentiality agreements
EXAMINE the different methods that can be used to resolve intellectual property disputes including the different costs and procedures

Who should attend?

In-house lawyers
Commercial managers and business executives
Patent, IP, trademarks or licensing counsel
Business development managers

OTHER COURSES THAT MAY BE OF INTEREST TO YOU:

Negotiating and Drafting Commercial Contracts for the Telecoms Sector – 11-13 March 2009, London

Drafting Commercial Contracts for the Pharmaceutical Industry – 3-5 June 2009, London

For more information call customer services on +44 (0)20 7729 6677, e-mail info@falconbury.co.uk
or visit www.falconbury.co.uk

Programme

Protection of copyright

Database rights and moral rights
Ownership issues including rights of employees
Commissioned works
Rights of joint owners

Protection of trade marks, brands and domain names

What is a trade mark?
What can be registered?
Why register?
Protection of unregistered trade mark rights
Domain name registration – where to stop?
Domain names – cyber-squatting, typo-squatting and domain name abuses – when to act?

Protection of inventions: Patents, supplementary protection certificates, utility models and related rights

Ownership issues
What are SPCs and what do they cover?
Basic patents
Basic and follow-on SPC’s

Protection of design rights and registered designs

Community design law
To register or not to register
UK unregistered design right – time to go?

WORKSHOP – Protection of know-how as confidential information/drafting confidentiality agreements

Group review of a typical (imperfect) CDA
Legal protection of confidential information
Drafting tips and suggestions

IP in transactions

Due diligence – understand the ‘deal’ and the IP
Assignment of registered IP, unregistered IP and know-how
Licensing of IP – exclusive, sole and non-exclusive
Some typical licence terms
Drafting and negotiating IP warranties and indemnities

Dealing with disputes over intellectual property

Disputes during and after registration including validity and infringement
Dispute resolution methods, including ADR, arbitration and litigation
Interim and final remedies
Comparison of jurisdictions, including costs and procedures

The expert faculty

Chair

Mark Anderson is a solicitor and former barrister, who established his law firm, Anderson & Company, in 1994. His client are mostly technology-based companies and universities in the UK and Northern Europe. He specialises in drafting, negotiating and advising on commercial contracts, particularly those which are concerned with intellectual property. He is the author of several legal textbooks, published by Oxford University Press, Butterworths, Tottel and the
Law Society.

Presenters

Stephen Reese is a Partner at Olswang where he advises clients on both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters including patents, trade marks, trade secrets and copyright. He has significant experience representing those clients within the life sciences and technology fields. In connection with his life sciences practice, Stephen also advises clients on UK and EU regulatory matters within that sector.

Nicholas Bolter is a Partner in the London office of Howrey where he specialises in all forms of intellectual property, including contentious and non-contentious work involving patents, trade marks, trade secrets and confidentiality, passing off, copyright and designs. Nicholas regularly advises clients in the luxury and consumer goods sectors in relation to brand protection and brand enforcement. His contentious experience includes involvement in a number of cases in the High Court and the Patents County Court. Nicholas was recently seconded to a client for ten months as Acting Trade Marks Counsel for Europe.

David Stone is a Partner in the London office of Simmons and Simmons where he specialises in intellectual property matters, with particular expertise in branding issues including trade marks, copyright and designs. Over the years, David has worked with large and small clients in a diverse range of industries, including FMCGs, fashion, life sciences, agriculture and heavy industry, TMT and the arts. David is also a recognised expert in relation to Olympic-related IP
issues. A solicitor advocate, David also has the benefit of in-house experience, having represented The Coca-Cola Company as trademark counsel for Western Europe in 2003-2005, for which he received a special commendation.

Cerys Wyn-Davies is a Partner in the Outsourcing, Technology and Commercial Group of Pinsent Masons. She specialises in intellectual property, information technology and information law and has extensive experience advising major public companies, banks, universities and government bodies. Cerys has in depth experience of all areas of intellectual property, information technology and information law in a wide variety of sectors and industries including the technology, manufacturing, automotive and life sciences sectors.

Alexander Carter-Silk is a Partner in the London office of Speechly Bircham where he advises on intellectual property and technology matters. He advises suppliers and their insurers on recovering failed or failing technology projects, including large scale IT projects. Alex has significant experience investigating and reporting on the causes of project failures, resolving complex high value litigation mediation and arbitration. Alex leads the trade mark designs and brands practice, advising brand owners, product designers marketing professionals in respect of licensing, sponsorship and franchising of intellectual property rights and protection.

Sarah Turner is Of Counsel in the Intellectual Property Group of Lovells. She is based in London and is a member of the firm’s Life Sciences Team. Sarah advises on all aspects of intellectual property but specialises in patent litigation and the protection of confidential information. Sarah has a particular interest in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors and has acted for companies in these sectors in large pan-European patent infringement and revocation actions.