Useful Seminars at the British Library

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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,

IP and Fashion Law

Jane Lambert at the Blackfriars, Novotel

(c) Gita Mistry 2015 All rights reserved

Last Thursday I conducted a day long seminar on Intellectual Property and the Fashion Industry at the Blackfriars Road Novotel. The above photographs shows me interacting with the audience.  I had 20 attendees drawn from law firms big and small, patent and trade mark agencies and in-house legal departments.

The course covered:

• Basic concepts and terminology
• Advising the designer
• Advising the manufacturer
• Advising the retailer
• Dispute resolution
• Counterfeiting and piracy
• Developing an IP strategy, and
• Applying what had been learned to everyday practice.

Rather than read from notes and slides I taught the course by setting typical problems such as

"The day after a royal baby makes his or her first public appearance you want to sell a similar set of baby clothes. How would you set about doing that without being sued?"

and

"What provisions would you place in a contract with a supplier from Bangladesh?"

I got that idea from Ross Burrows of Burrows Law because that is how he taught the public access top-up and litigation courses which I took last year. He built on participants' knowledge and experience which he encouraged us to share.  I decided to do the same  next time I taught a CPD training course.

Preparing such courses requires a lot more work on the part of the trainer but it aids comprehension and retention.  The overwhelming response of the London group was very positive according to the feedback forms.

If you missed the course in London you can catch me in Leeds on 7 Oct 2015.  Quite apart from what you may learn from me on the course you can check out the exciting young designers at Lambert's Yard or the Textile Centre of Excellence in Huddersfield. Leeds is one of the major fashion centres outside London as you can see from this video of the recent Leodis Forum. You can book on-line or call MBL on 0161 793 0984. 

Forthcoming IP Events

Date	Event	Description
15 Sep 2014	IP Workshop: Create and Protect Your Business Brand	Free seminar 11:00 and 11:30 at  The Westminster , Enterprise Centre, 59 Elgin Avenue, London W9 2DB
16 Sep 2014	Introducing Copyright	Free workshop 14:00 - 16:00 at The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB
30 Sep 2014	Intellectual Property Clinic	Free 30 minute consultation between 14:00 and 17:00 with patent counsel with the possibility of further referrals to patent and trade mark attorneys and other experts at Middlesex University, Hendon
7 Oct 2014	Brand Licensing Europe 2014	Two day exhibition and seminar at Olympia
15 Oct 2014	Introducing Copyright	Free 30 minute consultation between 14:00 and 16:00 with patent counsel with the possibility of further referrals to patent and trade mark attorneys and other experts at Middlesex University, Hendon
22 Oct 2014	The Rank Group British Invention Show, British Innovation & Technology Show	Three day exhibition and seminar at Barbican Exhibition Hall 2.
28 Oct 2014	Intellectual Property Clinic	Free 30 minute consultation between 14:00 and 16:00 with patent counsel with the possibility of further referrals to patent and trade mark attorneys and other experts at Middlesex University, Hendon
5 Nov 2014	Innovate UK	Two day exhibition and seminar at Old Billingsgare
25 Nov 2014	Intellectual Property Clinic	Free 30 minute consultation between 14:00 and 16:00 with patent counsel with the possibility of further referrals to patent and trade mark attorneys and other experts at Middlesex University, Hendon