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Falconbury
In one intensive day learn how to protect and exploit your intellectual property rights for maximum commercial benefit
★★★★★ "The presentation as a whole was very useful and I would happily attend another webinar, especially i... more"
30 November 2023
+ 13 March 2024, 25 July 2024, 21 November 2024
from £499
The world of intellectual property can be complex and confusing and this course is designed to get you up to speed on the main types: what they are, how to protect and exploit your own intellectual property and how to avoid infringing someone else’s. It is a perfect one-day primer designed to make you feel like a ‘mini-expert’ in every area of intellectual property rights in both practical and commercial terms. By familiarising you with the most important legislation and case law, the course will also arm you with the ability to look up further questions yourself.
In addition, the day will offer an invaluable opportunity to ask the expert trainer about any particular issues that may affect you and your business and to interact with other delegates and learn from their experiences.
This training course is part of our Commercial & Business Law Training Course collection which has been designed for the in-house lawyer.
This programme has been specifically designed for those who deal with or come across intellectual property:
Hill Dickinson is a leading and award-winning international law firm with offices in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco and Hong Kong. As a full service law firm, it delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of dispute resolution.
Its commitment is to provide a fast and efficient service wherever its clients operate. As its business has grown and diversified, it has recognised the strength and importance of the principles held by its people; putting clients first and operating as one team to realise its goals and share its success. These principles have formed the foundation of its culture and the way its lawyers interact with one another and the firm’s clients. They are what distinguish it and are vital to its future.
The firm is on the panel of a number of national and international organisations and regularly competes against many of the City firms. In recent months they have been able to win a number of panel reviews against City firms.
• Carrs Milling Industries • Co-operative Group • CRH Group • Elstree Film Studios • Halewood International • Health Education England • Iceland Foods • Johnson & Johnson plc • Lavinia Corporation • Lloyds Bank • National Express • Odeon Cinemas • Peel Group • Stobart Group • United Utilities plc • Zeneca Group.
To find out more out what Hill Dickinson can do for you click HERE.
Mark Weston is a partner at Hill Dickinson LLP and is the Head of Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Commercial (London). Mark joined the firm from Matthew Arnold and Baldwin LLP where for 12 years he was a partner and Head of the Commercial, Intellectual Property and Information Technology Group, before which he spent several years at Baker McKenzie.
Expertise: Mark’s practice covers both non-contentious and contentious matters in all areas of commercial law, intellectual property law, information technology law, Internet, electronic commerce and on-line services law. He specialises in commercial and Tech issues.
Clients: Just some of Mark’s more well-known clients include Elstree Film Studios, Defaqto, mysupermarket.co.uk, Groupon, RTL Group S.A., Retailcorp Brands LLC, The Gulf Marketing Group, Europcar, Hilton Hotels and the BBC.
Some detail: Mark has extensive experience in advising clients on all manner of commercial matters (such as business planning and solutions, franchising, distribution, agency and marketing) through branding and intellectual property exploitation and licensing, to advice and documentation regarding hardware and software issues (such as development, licensing, maintenance and distribution, SaaS and cloud, Internet transactional solutioning, B2B, B2C and B2G electronic commerce, S-commerce and M-Commerce, social media, outsourcing, facilities management, procurement, IT policies, data protection (privacy), GDPR and freedom of information issues). He has a particular expertise in new digital business and revenue streams. He is also experienced in dealing with software disputes and IT litigation. The increasingly extensive media side of his practice relates primarily to publishing (both real world and digital content), to games and gaming platforms (and particularly transmedia technologies), advising companies about their advertising onscreen, online and in print and managing their public communications strategies generally (dealing with the CMA and ASA in the process) – and also a smattering of television, film and music exploitation.
More unusual:
Mark has previously spent several months on secondment to Hewlett Packard and he has also been seconded to assist in the legal problems arising in new technology companies such as Symbian. From 2000 to 2001, Mark was resident in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie advising US clients on European and UK aspects of IT and electronic commerce law and practice.
Mark is the author of the Legal Practice Companion, a parallel text book at several law schools, the editor of the IP and Media Law Companion as well as the rest of the Companion series of books published by Bloomsbury Professional, Tottels, Cavendish Publishing and Oxford University Press. He has noted numerous reports for the IT Law Reports and is widely published in Computing, Computers & Law, Computer Law & Security Report, IT Law Today, Intellectual Property World, Solicitors Journal and many other journals both online and offline. Mark has also authored articles syndicated in the national and trade press and is regularly quoted in national newspapers. Mark is the author of the Business Names on the Internet chapter in the PLC Ecommerce Manual as well as numerous other articles on various Commercial & IT law topics.
Mark lectures regularly on all Commercial, IP and IT law topics, most recently lecturing at the IBC IT ‘Summer School’ Programme in Cambridge, England; the Falconbury two-day and three-day Commercial Contracts seminars (run several times a year) and IT Contracts seminars (run three times a year) in London; and he has previously lectured at the Annual On-line & Internet Commerce Law Institute seminar in Chicago and tutored at University College London. He also runs a programme of bespoke training schemes on commercial law, IP law and IT law as well as soft skills programmes such as negotiation skills and presentation skills.
Finally, you will have seen that Mark likes blogging and writing books, which are available at all good bookshops! He also appears regularly on BBC1 (usually providing advice on-screen to BBC Watchdog) and also on Sky News as a legal commentator, as well as trying to avoid the huge quantity of pink powder the TV make-up girls want to apply to his increasingly receding hairline.
NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:
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30 November 2023
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09:30-17:15 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:30-18:15 Paris (UTC+01)
04:30-12:15 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 12296
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13 March 2024
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09:30-17:15 UK (London) (UTC+00)
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Course code 13553
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25 July 2024
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10:30-18:15 Paris (UTC+02)
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Course code 13767
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21 November 2024
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09:30-17:15 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:30-18:15 Paris (UTC+01)
04:30-12:15 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 13997
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* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price.
The presentation as a whole was very useful and I would happily attend another webinar, especially if presented by Mark. Mark continued to keep the group engaged and responded to all questions when asked with helpful and informative responses.
Sep 7 2022
Hannah Jones
Legal Administrator, Survitec Group Ltd
Sep 7 2022
Mark is an excellent teacher and breaks tricky concepts down into understandable pieces that are much easier to digest and understand.
Rachel Jackman
Square One Law
Sep 7 2022
A greater comprehension of IPR in order to further improve our internal processes. I found the course very helpful in accomplishing this target. Mark continued to keep the group engaged and responded to all questions when asked with helpful and informative responses.
Hannah Jones
Legal Administrator, Survitec Group Ltd
Sep 7 2022
The presentation as a whole was very useful and I would happily attend another webinar, especially if presented by Mark. Mark continued to keep the group engaged and responded to all questions when asked with helpful and informative responses. Copyright and Trademark was the most useful for me, but I found moral rights very interesting as an area I hadn't been exposed to before.
Hannah Jones
Legal Administrator, Survitec Group Ltd
Nov 11 2021
Great content... The speaker was incredibly knowledgeable and entertaining.
Deborah Antonio
Mar 4 2020
Was really very good and the content and material will help me with a lot of future queries.
Michelle Smal
Contracts Manager, Cubic Transportation Systems Ltd
Mar 4 2020
Amazing, but really fast course. (I was hoping) to explore new solutions & problem solving methods. Absolutely accomplished.
Alina Andrejeva
Lawyer, Admiral Markets AS
Nov 6 2019
I was hoping to learn more about IP and its practical use and I believe I accomplished my goals. The course was excellent and I liked the fact that it was very interactive. The speaker was excellent and really tried to resolve our issues and answer all of our questions.
Janja Milicevic
Legal Adviser, CROATIAN RADIO TELEVISION
Nov 6 2019
Mark was extremely knowledgeable and presented the content in a clear and comprehensive manner. It was also helpful that he was happy to answer any questions.
Caitlin Stewart
Legal Administrator, Costello Medical Consulting Limited
Mar 5 2019
Very impressed. The course exceeded my expectations and has provided me with the basic knowledge I was seeking and tools to advance this knowledge in my work life.
Anna Kerr
Senior Contracts Officer, L3 MAPPS Limited
Nov 6 2019
Good refresher on IPR. Mark Weston has good knowledge and a good teaching style. I particularly liked the size of the group and the takeaway materials.
Rae Gibbons-Fraser
Lawyer, Quintessential Counsel Limited
Mar 6 2018
The course was very informative and well conducted.
Tafara Mutepfa
Project Engineer, Clear Edge Germany GmbH
Nov 16 2017
Mark was very well prepared for the course and it was obvious that he knew the subject matter extremely well.
Evridiki Christaki
Legal Expert, Eurocontrol
Nov 16 2017
Thoroughly enjoyable and informative.
Martin Bransby
Head of Research, R&R NAV
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