Visit to British Libray Business & IP Centre:
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Mark - IP Lawyer
IP covers Non-tangible property
Confidential information - ie.Coke, recipe, trade secret, things imitators are going to want, market research insights. - Keep it confidential or lose it.
Copyright - literary work, composition.
covers Museums, Software, Articles, Designs.
Works of artistic craftsmenship.
Qualified monopoly
Project Gutenberg - old projects no longer in copyright
Date stamped, scanned with date
New process/creation. Is it new to people who specialise in that field?
Remember 'dynamite' - Patent draftsmen
Protection > Worldwide
Patents -longer timespan
Copyright
NDA - Non-disclosure agreement
Would Facebook happen in the UK?
Different between (R) and (TM)
Renew Trademark name every 10 years
Logo is automatically protected under copyright
Could still be protected by name
Word mark will give more protection than imagemark
Registered protection, need to think 5 years ahead.
Keep the application number to a minimum - (Check)
Ocado - Unregistered Trademark
Cannot use R without TM
C is automatic
Register in UK - about £170
different registration 'classes' - goods & services
IPOs allow people to register themselves
Look at the register at competitors
Make sure it is a registered trademark
Designs (Registered & Unregistered)
- Must be 'new' and 'original'
£200 - for insurance
Protection for ornamentation may not be covered - ie.Orla Kiehy, Febreeze
25yrs protection
Prove that logo is original
EU registration for signature
Window for registering, grace period in certain countries
ie.
CA - register
AU - register
UK - later registration
Certain jurisdictions can claim priority
£200 per hour - IP Lawyer
Confidential information:
- Online security (originals/backups)
- Control of data handling policies
- Vigilance/act quickly
- Online monitoring systems - picks up copies of registered names
- Don't release source code
- Watermark images
- Buy insurance
- Consider licensing to a larger company
Can transfer ownership of IP, with license to use in the UK
Patents
- where do you want to sell?
- your patent is publicly available online
Domain names - get obvious typos
Selling abroad?
Expanding abroad?
Register .cn address?
£600 for checking similar trademarks in the field/worldwide
Online search systems - for finding similar trademarks
- prevent 'genericide'/infringement of identity.
Beware of scams
12month grade period
For designers - In China you need certificates.
Standard licenses
> Creative Commons (c)
- check terms of license
- 'copyleft'
- attribution
British software assocation
Where are you?
Can lease out a license - whenever someone is using your kit, or you are using theirs.
- Different conditions for terminations of license, notice period, set end date, ongoing, termination via additional users.
- Exclusive license - affects licensing
Royalties - write it down and sign it.
Check IP in certain jurisdictions
images on websites - image could be someone elses, could offer to buy.
sync license, from record company (music), publishers who own IP
How to structure ownership of IP
Torts and Contracts
Patent County Court - costs are limited
Tax on IP - in the form of Corporation Tax
Mark Corran > mark@briffa.com
'Contracters Contract' - can keep ownership of work
Ltd - Liability of shareholder, director (joint liability) with company
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