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Ownership and Exploitation of Intellectual Property Rights Training Course

Gain essential skills to identify, protect, leverage and exploit intellectual property rights, avoid costly infringements, and apply practical legal knowledge to safeguard and maximise the value of your ideas and innovations

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9 June 2026
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Course overview

Intellectual property (IP) is one of your organisation’s most valuable assets - yet it’s an area that can often feel complex, technical, and full of potential pitfalls. This intensive one-day course will give you a clear, practical understanding of the main types of IP, how to protect and maximise your own rights, and how to avoid infringing those of others.

Designed as a focused, hands-on primer, the programme will walk you through copyright, trade marks, patents, design rights, database rights, moral rights and more - explaining how each works in both legal and commercial terms. You’ll learn the essentials of IP legislation and case law, equipping you to identify risks, spot opportunities, and confidently handle IP issues in your day-to-day work.

With expert guidance, real-world examples, and plenty of time for Q&A, you’ll leave not only with a ‘mini-expert’ understanding of IP rights but also with practical tools and strategies you can apply immediately. You’ll also have the chance to exchange experiences with peers, gaining fresh insights and perspectives from across different sectors.

This is an essential course for anyone who needs to understand intellectual property and how to use it to strengthen, protect and grow their business.

This training course is part of our Commercial & Business Law Training Course collection which has been designed for the in-house lawyer.

Benefits of attending

By attending this course you will:

Identify the main types of intellectual property rights and understand their commercial value to your organisation
Learn how to protect your IP assets with confidence by applying proven strategies to secure and enforce your rights
Navigate legislation and case law with ease, knowing where to look for authoritative answers to IP questions
Avoid costly mistakes by recognising and preventing infringements of third-party IP rights
Explore the with the latest legal developments, best practice and emerging IP trends
Examine the pitfalls that could expose your organisation to unnecessary risk
Distinguish between copyright and unregistered design rights - and know when each applies
Maximise the value of trade marks to strengthen brand identity and signal product or service origin
Manage infringement risks effectively, understanding when and how to send infringement letters without triggering unjustified threat claims
Benefit from peer learning by sharing challenges and gaining fresh perspectives from other industries and sectors

Who should attend?

This programme has been specifically designed for those who deal with or come across intellectual property, including:

In-house lawyers
Private practice lawyers
Legal advisers
IP managers and patent/trade mark administrators
R&D managers and product development managers
Commercial managers
Business development managers
In-house patent lawyers
Licensing and contracts managers
Compliance officers

Presenter's firm

Weston Legal is a leading specialist boutique firm specialising in Commercial law, Technology law, Media law, Intellectual Property law, Data law and Regulatory law and practice. From its founding, the firm has always committed 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.

To find out more about what Weston Legal can do for you, please contact Mark at westonlegal.ltd or see https://uk.linkedin.com/in/markwestonlegal

Mark also operates as a leading consultant to Hill Dickinson LLP, a leading and award-winning international law firm with offices in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, 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. 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.

To find out more out what Mark can do for you via Hill Dickinson, please contact him via www.hilldickinson.com

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This course has proven particularly popular among our customers in these roles:

Lawyer
Legal Counsel
Trainee Solicitor

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This course will cover:

Copyright

Basics of copyright
Existence, ownership and infringement
- Is a work capable of copyright protection?
- Is the work in a ‘fixed’ form?
- Does the work qualify for UK copyright protection?
- Is the work still protected by copyright?
- Who is the owner of the copyright?
- Will copyright be infringed?
Primary infringement
Secondary infringement
- Are there any defences to infringement?
- What remedies are available?
Civil remedies
Criminal remedies
International considerations
- Berne Convention
- Universal Copyright Convention
Exploiting copyright
- Assignment
- Licensing

Moral rights

Types of moral rights
Moral rights relating to copyright works

Database rights

Is it a database?
Does the database qualify for protection?
Who is the owner of the right?
How long does the right last?
What protection does the right give the owner?
Are there any defences to infringement?
What remedies are available?

Design rights

Registered design rights
- Is a design capable of registration?
- Registering a design
- Infringement
- Dealing with registered design rights
Unregistered design rights
- Requirements for an unregistered design right
- Overlap between copyright and design rights
- Infringement
- Dealing with unregistered design rights
- Semiconductor topography rights
EU design rights (registered and unregistered)

Patents (overview)

Legal framework
Is an invention patentable?
Applying for a UK patent
Applying for a patent under the EPC
Applying for a patent under the PCT
Infringement
Dealing with patents
The Unitary Patent?

Trade marks

Is a mark capable of registration?
Registering a trade mark
Protecting a trade mark
Revocation and invalidity
Dealing with trade marks
Trade mark searches
Other types of registrable marks

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Mark Weston
Weston Legal

Mark Weston has run his own law firm, Weston Legal, since 1 January 2024. He is also a consultant at Hill Dickinson LLP where he joined in February 2016 as a partner and Head of its Commercial, TMT & IP Practice. Before that, he was a partner and Head of the Commercial/IP/IT Team at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and before that, he spent several years at Baker & McKenzie in London and Chicago and has also previously been seconded to Hewlett Packard and other technology businesses. He changed role to become a consultant in Hill Dickinson’s London office in January 2024.

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. Mark is used as a ‘trusted adviser’ by many clients in all sorts of businesses and often acts as ‘private practice in-house counsel’ for many clients. He specialises in tech and internet businesses.

Clients: Just some of Mark’s more well-known clients include Elstree Film Studios, RTL Group S.A., Sykes Cottages, Retailcorp Brands LLC, The Gulf Marketing Group, Moneynetint Limited 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 as well as artificial intelligence (AI)). 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. Recently he has been very active in AI advice.

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 used 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 and is heard on radio as an expert in his fields. 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, including at the IBC IT ‘Summer School’ Programme in Cambridge, England; the Falconbury and MBL 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, IT law, AI law and data law as well as soft skills programmes such as negotiation skills and presentation skills.

Finally, you may 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.

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NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:

30% off the 2nd delegate*
40% off the 3rd delegate*
50% off the 4th delegate*

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9 June 2026

Live online

09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 16106

GBP 599 699
EUR 839 979
USD 963 1,119

Until 05 May

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2 December 2026

Live online

09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+01)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 16592

GBP 599 699
EUR 839 979
USD 963 1,119

Until 28 Oct

1 day live online training
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for 7 days, no obligation

* 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; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.

Reviews of IPI's Ownership and Exploitation of Intellectual Property Rights training course

Speaker was extremely knowledgeable and engaging throughout the webinar. I was impressed by his seemingly infinite knowledge! I feel I have achieved a greater understanding of the key principles governing IP law from the webinar.

Jun 10 2025

Evie O'Connor United Kingdom
Trainee Solicitor, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Sep 7 2022

Hannah Jones United Kingdom
Trainee Legal Counsel, 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 United Kingdom
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 United Kingdom
Trainee Legal Counsel, 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 United Kingdom
Trainee Legal Counsel, Survitec Group Ltd

Nov 11 2021

Great content... The speaker was incredibly knowledgeable and entertaining.

Deborah Antonio United Kingdom

Mar 4 2020

Was really very good and the content and material will help me with a lot of future queries.

Michelle Smal United Kingdom
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 Estonia
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 Croatia
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 United Kingdom
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 United Kingdom
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 United Kingdom
Lawyer, Quintessential Counsel Limited

Mar 6 2018

The course was very informative and well conducted.

Tafara Mutepfa Germany
Project Engineer, Clear Edge Germany GmbH