Course overview
This one-day trade mark administrator training course has been specifically designed for trade mark administrators, formalities assistants and other IP support staff dealing with trade marks.
This course will provide a comprehensive overview of:
- What trade marks are
- How to choose new trade marks
- The process of registration at UKIPO, EUIPO, WIPO
- Contentious proceedings
- Recording changes on the Trade Mark Register
- Administration of your domain name portfolio
The expert trainer will use her extensive experience and knowledge to bring the topics alive and work through a number of case studies throughout the sessions to ensure delegates get the most from this course.
This course is part of our collection of IP & Patents Training Courses.
Why you should attend
- Improve your understanding of the trademark process
- Learn how to register your trademark using the most commonly used registration systems
- Understand the importance of accuracy in your role
- Gain practical time saving tips
- Get insights into best practices
Who should attend?
- Trademark/Patent Administrators
- Formalities Assistants
- Legal Assistants
- Paralegals
- IP Support Staff
- Others wishing to learn more about trademark administration
This course will cover:
Introduction to trade marks
- What is a trademark?
- Why register a trademark?
- The structure of the registers (typically national v. the more international nature of many businesses)
Choosing new trade marks
- Inherent registrability and market acceptability
- Relative registrability; searching and clearance
- Lawyers in collaboration with marketing colleagues
Registration and prosecution
- Understanding registration at UKIPO, EUIPO, WIPO
- Applying to register
- Communicating with the UKIPO, EUIPO, WIPO
- Outline of the process
- Objections (relative and absolute grounds)
- Responses, evidence and acquired distinctiveness
Pitfalls and practicalities around the world
- Timeframes
- Sanctions
- Documentary requirements
- Office practices
Contentious proceedings – opposition, invalidity and revocation
- Opposition
- Revocation
- Invalidity
- Evidence
- Hearing and appeal
Recording changes on the trade mark register
- When will you need to record changes and why?
- How to deal with changes
Renewal and maintenance
- Overview
- Databases
- Renewal agencies v. In-house
Administration of a Domain Name Portfolio
- Overview of portfolio management
- Use of Domain Name Management Companies
- Watching services
- Maintenance of domain names
- Achieving a ‘tidy’ portfolio
- Ownership of domains
- Controlling the filing of domains
- UDRP – domain disputes
- acquisition of domain names
- Pointing/technical issues
- Social media handles
Victoria Silk
BAT
Victoria Silk is Senior Counsel, Trade Marks – New Category Products for BAT. She is a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and in-house Counsel. She qualified in London in 2005 and spent 6 years in-house with ICI paints before becoming Virgin’s in-house Trade Mark Attorney in Geneva in 2011. She joined BAT in 2017.
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Reviews of IPI's The Trade Mark Administrator training course
Victoria was very well spoken and presented the material in an easy to understand manner. I enjoyed the case study as it tied in all the elements we learned in a way we could visualise it. I enjoyed the presentation and thought it flowed well. I learned a lot.
Sep 18 2023
Heidi Shelton
Trademark Coordinator, CSL Vifor
United Kingdom
- AdamsonJones
- Addleshaw Goddard LLP
- Affinion International Ltd
- Aggregate Industries plc
- Alliance Pharmaceuticals Ltd
- Aly Young Law
- ARM Holdings Plc
- ARM Ltd
- BAE Systems PLC
- Bio Products Laboratory Ltd
- BMS Group Limited
- Body Shop International plc
- BP International Ltd
- BUPA
- Burges Salmon LLP
- Calor Gas Ltd
- Capgemini UK plc
- Compass Patents LLP
- De Beers UK Limited
- De La Rue Plc
- Elkington & Fife LLP
- Freeth Cartwright LLP
- IMG Media
- Infineum UK Ltd
- Intrust Ltd
- ip21 Limited
- J A Kemp & Co
- Jenny Lawrence Ltd
- Kingfisher
- Mastrovito & Associates
- Metaswitch Networks
- Ministry of Defence
- Nextthink
- Owen Mumford Ltd
- Oxford Gene Technology IP Ltd
- Patent Outsourcing Limited
- Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz UK LLP
- Powdermed Ltd
- Selex Sensors & Airborne Systems
- Siemens plc
- Smith & Nephew UK Ltd
- Square Enix Europe Limited
- Thales UK Ltd
- Towers Watson Limited
- Turley Legal
- UK Hydrographic Office
- University of Southampton
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Europe Ltd
- Which? Ltd
- William Grant & Sons Limited
- William Grant & Sons Ltd
Netherlands
- Akzo Nobel NV
- Crucell Holland BV
- Koninklijke KPN N.V.
- KPMG International
- Rise Trademarks
- Royal KPN N.V.
- TomTom International BV
Switzerland
- CSL Vifor
- Merck Serono SA
- Omya International AG
- Partners Group
- TRB Chemedica International SA
France
Ireland
- FF Gorman & Co
- James Hardie Technology Ltd
Austria
Belgium
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Italy
Sweden