Intellectual Property Rights and Enforcement Training Course

Participants can conduct an initial audit and map IP assets to business activities.

• Asset inventory fields: creator, owner, jurisdiction, status and renewal date
• Mapping rights to revenue streams, product lines and customer propositions
• Chain-of-title review for acquired, developed and commissioned assets
• Priority scoring using commercial value, exposure and replacement difficulty
• Audit interviews with research, marketing, technology and procurement teams
• Portfolio gaps identified through product lifecycle and market-entry analysis

Participants can assess copyright protection, ownership and permitted use questions.

• Copyright subsistence requirements: originality, fixation and protected expression
• Economic rights, moral rights and statutory limitation frameworks
• Authorship and ownership rules for employees, contractors and joint creators
• Software, databases, reports, photographs, audiovisual works and training materials
• Permissions workflow for third-party content, stock media and open licences
• Notice-and-takedown evidence for unauthorised online content distribution

Participants can develop a basic trade mark protection and brand enforcement strategy.

• Distinctiveness assessment: invented, arbitrary, suggestive, descriptive and generic marks
• Nice Classification classes selected from actual goods and service descriptions
• Clearance searches, confusing similarity and prior-rights risk assessment
• Filing strategy for word marks, logos, slogans and non-traditional marks
• Use requirements, renewal evidence and vulnerability to non-use cancellation
• Domain name disputes, cybersquatting indicators and UDRP complaint elements

Participants can distinguish patent protection decisions from freedom-to-operate analysis.

• Patentability criteria: novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability
• Claims, specification, drawings and the boundaries of patent protection
• Public disclosure risks before filing, testing, marketing or fundraising
• Invention disclosure forms capturing technical features and contributor details
• Prior-art searching versus freedom-to-operate searching and legal opinions
• Patent family records, prosecution milestones and maintenance-fee controls

Participants can determine when product appearance merits design protection.

• Design protection for shape, configuration, ornamentation and graphical appearance
• Novelty searches using product catalogues, databases and market evidence
• Drawings, representations and disclaimers defining the registered design
• Functional features distinguished from protectable visual design features
• Coordinating design filings with product launch and publicity schedules
• Comparing overall impressions in alleged design infringement assessments

Participants can establish controls for protecting confidential business information.

• Trade secret elements: secrecy, commercial value and reasonable protection measures
• Information classification for formulas, source code, methods and customer data
• Need-to-know access controls, secure repositories and access-log retention
• Non-disclosure agreements tailored to purpose, recipients and permitted disclosures
• Exit procedures addressing device return, access removal and confidentiality reminders
• Misappropriation indicators, internal investigation triggers and evidence preservation

Participants can identify ownership risks in workforce and third-party arrangements.

• Employee-created works, inventions and applicable statutory ownership presumptions
• Consultant assignments requiring present-tense transfer and further-assurance obligations
• Joint development governance: background IP, foreground IP and improvement rights
• Founder, subsidiary and group-company ownership records reconciled before transactions
• Assignment formalities, witness requirements and recordal procedures by jurisdiction
• Moral rights waivers, consent language and limits under local law

Participants can review core IP clauses in commercial and technology agreements.

• Background IP schedules identifying pre-existing materials, software and know-how
• Foreground IP allocation for commissioned development and collaborative projects
• Licence scope defined by field, territory, term, channel and sublicensing
• Use restrictions, quality controls and trade mark approval procedures
• Open-source software clauses, attribution duties and copyleft risk allocation
• Indemnities, warranties, liability caps and infringement claim procedures

Participants can prioritise registrations and select suitable international filing routes.

• Jurisdiction prioritisation using revenue, manufacturing, infringement and enforcement risk
• Madrid System trade mark filings and dependency considerations
• Patent Cooperation Treaty timelines, national phase entry and cost planning
• Hague System design registrations and representation requirements
• Local counsel instructions containing ownership, goods, specimens and deadlines
• Renewal calendars, docketing controls and budget approval thresholds

Participants can build an IP risk register and governance process.

• IP risk register fields: event, likelihood, impact, owner and treatment
• Inherent and residual risk ratings supported by stated assumptions
• Risk indicators for unauthorised use, missed deadlines and ownership gaps
• Escalation thresholds for product launch, deal approval and suspected infringement
• RACI matrix for legal, product, security, procurement and external counsel
• Board reporting metrics: portfolio status, disputes, spend and key exposures

Participants can conduct a preliminary infringement assessment and preserve evidence.

• Rights-first analysis matching alleged conduct against protected legal elements
• Comparison tables documenting similarities, differences and evidential sources
• Chain of custody for samples, screenshots, web captures and purchase records
• Test purchases, investigator instructions and authenticated evidence collection
• Preservation notices for internal records, devices and relevant communications
• Legal privilege boundaries when investigations involve internal and external counsel

Participants can select appropriate responses to online IP infringement.

• Platform reporting routes for counterfeit listings, copyright and trade mark complaints
• URL capture, seller identification and repeat-infringer pattern analysis
• Domain registrar, hosting provider and search-engine request procedures
• Notice content: right details, evidence, declarations and requested remedy
• Counter-notices, restored content and escalation after platform refusal
• Social media monitoring criteria, alert triage and evidence retention schedules

Participants can prepare a proportionate pre-action enforcement response.

• Cease-and-desist letters framed around rights, facts, demands and deadlines
• Without-prejudice communications and settlement privilege considerations
• Undertakings covering cessation, stock destruction, disclosure and future conduct
• Settlement terms: releases, confidentiality, admissions and payment structures
• Negotiation planning using BATNA, interests, concessions and authority limits
• Commercial assessment of reputational impact, disruption and recovery prospects

Participants can compare formal enforcement routes and escalation criteria.

• Civil remedies: injunctions, damages, account of profits and delivery-up
• Interim relief requirements: urgency, serious issue and balance of convenience
• Administrative complaints before trade mark, competition and market authorities
• Criminal counterfeiting referrals, evidential thresholds and investigator coordination
• Forum selection based on jurisdiction, defendant assets and available remedies
• Litigation budgets, adverse-cost exposure and settlement decision gates

Participants can design customs-focused controls against counterfeit goods.

• Customs recordal requirements, rights documents and product identification materials
• Product guides showing authentic features, packaging and common counterfeit indicators
• Border detention procedures, response deadlines and verification communications
• Destruction, release and legal action decisions after suspected seizures
• Distributor monitoring for diversion, grey-market goods and unauthorised channels
• Counterfeit incident logs linking seizures, sellers, routes and enforcement outcomes

Participants can evaluate IP licensing structures and control associated risks.

• Exclusive, sole and non-exclusive licences matched to commercial objectives
• Royalty structures: percentage sales, per-unit fees, minimums and milestones
• Audit clauses, sales reporting, record retention and underpayment remedies
• Technology transfer restrictions, export controls and know-how disclosure controls
• Quality assurance provisions protecting licensed brands and customer expectations
• Termination consequences for inventory, sublicences, confidential information and improvements

Participants can perform targeted IP due diligence for a transaction or partnership.

• Diligence request lists covering registrations, ownership, licences and disputes
• Data-room review of assignments, renewal records and prosecution correspondence
• Red flags: missing assignments, open-source exposure and threatened claims
• Representations and warranties matched to identified IP risk areas
• Disclosure schedules documenting exceptions, disputes and third-party restrictions
• Post-completion remediation plan for recordals, consents and portfolio consolidation

Participants can coordinate an IP response involving multiple jurisdictions and advisers.

• Jurisdiction matrix comparing rights, remedies, timing, cost and local constraints
• Common-facts memorandum ensuring consistent instructions across external counsel teams
• Central evidence repository with access controls and version management
• Cross-border privilege risks, data-transfer restrictions and investigation confidentiality
• Global settlement terms checked against local enforceability and competition rules
• Enforcement dashboards tracking actions, spend, outcomes and repeat offenders

Participants can build, review and present a complete IP protection and enforcement dossier.

• Portfolio map connecting business assets, ownership records and protection status
• Priority risk register with ratings, controls, accountable owners and deadlines
• Protection plan covering filings, confidentiality, contracts and renewal actions
• Infringement evidence file supported by comparison tables and custody records
• Enforcement decision matrix comparing notices, platforms, customs and litigation
• Implementation roadmap presented with budget assumptions, milestones and escalation triggers