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Jane Lambert
If you own, manage or invest in a startup or other small business, you should check out the Business and Intellectual Property Centre at the British Library at 86 Euston Road. If you don't know the area it is almost next door to St Pancras station and a short walk from King's Criss and Euston. It has a massive collection of business publications with access to even more online. It is open to anyone with a reader's card which can be obtained upon showing evidence of identity and residence. The Library also has Linkedin and Facebook groups.
If you are new to the Centre you could do worse than attend the free workshop on 13 Jan 2020 entitled Introduction to using the Business and IP Centre. The seminar starts at 10:30 and continues to 13:00. atter which there will be a chance to meet the speakers, staff another attendees informally over refreshments On the same day, there is an introduction to intellectual property entitled Can I protect a business idea starting at 14:00 and ending at 17:00 which is also free. If you miss either of those talks they are repeated on 27 Jan (see Introduction to using the Business & IP Centre and Can I protect a business idea 27 Jan 2020).
After you have attended these introductory lectures you mat want to try some of the others. Seminars that I would attend if I lived nearer London include
- How do I search registered designs 14 Jan 14:00 to 17:00 charge £20;
- How do I search patents 16 Jan 10:00 to 13:30 charge £20;
- How to protect your IP abroad 22 Jan 10:00 to 12:30 free; and
- How do I use British Library collections for my business research? 29 Jan 10:00 to 13:00 charge £20.
Having founded and chaired the inventors' clubs at Leeds, Liverpool and Sheffield, I am delighted to see that the British Library will launch an Inventos Club on 27 Jan 2019 between 18:00 and 20:49 and I will support that in any way I can,
Anyone wishing to discuss this article or any of the issues mentioned in it should call me on 020 7404 5252 or send me a message through my contact page,
Anyone wishing to discuss this article or any of the issues mentioned in it should call me on 020 7404 5252 or send me a message through my contact page,