Helping you get smart about Intellectual Property
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Learn everything you need to know about Intellectual Property to empower yourself, to stand out as an designer, artist or brand; to protect your work and ensure you are paid what you are due – without spending 12 months trying to navigate the process yourself.
Courses for Education
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Courses for Entrepreneurs & Business Owners
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What is Intellectual Property?
Think IP doesn’t impact you? Think again! I surrounds you every day and could affect your work and your livelihood.
Types of Intellectual Property include Copyright, Trademarks, Registered Designs, Trade Secrets, Patents, Moral Rights and Community Designs.
It impacts ideas, inspiration, using other people’s work, copying and infringment, commissions, selling and income, reputation, branding, licensing and freelancing. Do you still think it doesn’t affect you?
Confused about Intellectual Property and its relevance to your business? Our transformative workshop on will demystify IP, revealing its crucial role in protecting your assets, avoiding costly mistakes, and driving innovation. Limited spaces are available, so book now to unlock the hidden value in your business!
In our final episode of 2024 Prof. David Spicer hosts Dr Nuno Arroteia and Anna Brewin for a discussion around Intellectual Property for SMEs. The conversation explores why businesses should be concerned with Intellectual Property and how they can appropriate manage and promote responsible management through IP in their firms.
Both use their expertise from personal and professional experience to explore how brands across the globe can protect their assets. Whether you are a large company looking to expand into new markets or a startup entrepreneur exploring how you can protect your future this episode will help you.
Nuno is an Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the School of Management and has extensive industry experience in operations management and business development as well as being a serial investor and publishing research in leading journals.
Anna relaunched her business, Amanya Design, in 2018 and has a background in textile, surface pattern, graphics and corporate design. Her work has led her to gain an understanding and experience of intellectual property during her design journey and since 2019 she has been sharing this knowledge, along with training businesses, entrepreneurs and designers on understanding and protecting their intellectual property.
This talk educates young people about understanding the basics of Intellectual Property. It then prepares them for the more in depth course: ‘Don’t Steal My Stuff!’
The ‘Hands Off My Property!’ course is available to schools and colleges alongside the ‘Don’t Steal My Stuff!’ course in various delivery options.
Want to find out more about Intellectual Property impacting people’s lives? Watch or listen to this new show where Anna is joined by her guests to talk about IP and life. See more at the link below:
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Do you know about your intellectual property and how it affects you? Do you know what you create is your IP and being smart about it can impact your inspiration, your creativity, your entrepreneurship, your business, your income and your livelihood.
See my FREE guide giving you 10 Reasons why you need to know about your Intellectual Property as a designer, artist, entrepreneur or business owner.
These new courses are introductions to Intellectual Property in 2 versions: Youth & Students and for Adults. Be introduced to this crucial subject. If big names are protecting their stuff, shouldn’t you too?
Check out the Youth & Students course here
Check out the Adults course here
A Beginner’s Guide to Intellectual Property (Professional Courses)
If you are a designer or artist, are you protecting your creations? Or if you are an entrepreneur or business owner are you protecting your IP? With copying and IP theft on the rise, can you afford not to?
Legally Approved Courses
All the Intellectual Property courses are written, as far as possible, without legal speak, so they can be understood by those not legally trained. But they have been reviewed and approved by SRA Regulated legal companies.
Anna has the great advantage of having walked the journey of protecting her own brand with IP, with experience of the dangers and pitfalls she has encountered along the way.
Jiri Svorc’s Legal Review
Qualified Solicitor SRA Regulated
The courses are aimed at different proficiencies and are a valuable resource not just for beginners, but also for active creatives and business professionals whose encounters with IP extend beyond the logo on their morning coffee cup. The beginners courses cover the elementary principles of intellectual property, drawing similarities and making comparisons with the world of physical property, while the advanced courses go much deeper in the topic, also focusing on areas including IP infringement and licensing.
Although the contents of the courses vary, all of them are accompanied by engaging visuals, practical examples and case law summaries highlighting the significance of intellectual property and its importance in everyday (business) life.
Don’t Steal My Stuff provides an illustrative and engaging introduction to intellectual property, the value of brand strength, and the importance of being proactive in the registration and protection of your rights.
Having completed this introduction to the core IP rights, the creators of tomorrow will undoubtedly be better placed to protect and exploit their talents in future with a foundational awareness of the value of their own rights and those of others.
Ross Brandborg
USA Patent and Trademark Attorney
The course provided a comprehensive overview of U.S. trademark law, highlighting what constitutes a trademark; covering topics such as what qualifies as a trademark, and the procedure to register your trademark. Without needless minutia, the course stays true with the target always being the registration of your trademark.
I appreciated the straightforward, down-to-earth advice the course offered, I highly recommend this course as a resource I’d readily suggest to anyone who wants to wants a quick yet informative introduction to the world of trademarks and the essentials of the registration journey.
