Our seminar on the challenges of protecting IP online will prime you to understand the many pitfalls – and opportunities – that this environment presents to us.

With a wide variety of social media and online marketplace platforms available, there are many challenges for brand owners. 

Keeping control of a trade mark on these platforms is vital but not always straightforward. We will look at the issue of tackling infringement on social media and online marketplaces and the methods for dealing with such infringements including the use of takedown procedures. 

We will cover a variety of key topics, including:

  • The issues that takedown procedures can cause and what could be done
  • The specific challenges facing social media influencers
  • What can be done to control abusive domain names
  • The latest developments in UDRP practice and steps that can be taken when confronted with a WhoIs that gives away no information about the underlying owner of the domain name.

This seminar meets skillset 1.3 Domain names and 2.8 Online monitoring and enforcement of the Advanced Competency Framework.

Programme

  • 2pm Welcome and introduction – Peter Vaughan, Nottingham Law School
  • 2:05pm RDNH: how not to do domain name disputes – Tim Brown, Com Laude
  • 2:45pm Tackling infringement on social media – Becky Knott
  • 3:25pm Working with influencers and the challenges around this – Amelia Skelding, Keltie
  • 4pm Close – Peter Vaughan, Nottingham Law School

Learning outcomes

  • Know about the latest developments in online trade mark and IP infringement online
  • Understand some of the challenges when advising social media influencers
  • Understand how to use social media and online marketplace takedowns and some of the issues
  • Understand the latest developments with UDRP complaints and the issues with the WhoIs

Meet your speakers

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Tim Brown, Com Laude

Tim is Head of Brand Protection at Com Laude’s intellectual property protection division.

He also acts as an independent Expert for Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service – the award-winning dispute system for the .uk domain name space.

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Becky Knott

Becky is a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and Trade Mark Attorney Litigator.

 She has advised on the presence of a malicious cloned website causing reputational damage to the client, securing the suspension of this website and providing information which was passed on to the criminal authorities.

She is currently retraining as an IP barrister and will start pupillage in April 2023.

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Amelia Skelding, Keltie

Amelia is a Senior Associate and Chartered Trade Mark Attorney at Keltie, having fully qualified in 2020.

She has experience in brand protection covering a range of industries including fashion, oil & gas, finance and the automotive sector.

Amelia is also a council member of ECTA’s Internet Committee.

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Peter Vaughan, Nottingham Law School

Peter is a lecturer at Nottingham Law School where he is deputy course leader on the professional certificate in trade mark practice course for trade mark attorneys. 

He also supervises the IP work at NLS Legal, an SRA regulated teaching law firm at Nottingham Law School. 

Peter chairs the CITMA Working Group on Domain Names and has a particular interest in domain name disputes and online trade mark infringement.

 

Pricing

  • Member rate: £160
  • Standard rate: £190

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