20-minute vodcasts
Filmed specially for you, our student vodcast series covers soft skills and wellbeing topics to help you now and in the future. We have sourced experts who in 20 minutes share their essential insight with you.
How to prepare for client meetings
Meetings with existing clients and to win new business will be an important part of your daily working life. Feel confident and learn what to say and how to follow-up with business development expert Bernard Savage from Size 10½ Boots.
Developing your career
How do you move on up in a career in IP? How quickly should you expect to progress? What should you be doing to help you achieve your goals? We asked IP recruiter Pete Fellows to answer these questions.
Mental wellbeing
We know juggling your study with training on the job can be intensive. We asked Ann Charlton from legal wellbeing charity LawCare to give you some pointers on how to look out for the mental wellbeing of yourself and those around you.
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Features
Read insight written with you and all our student members in mind.
Career paths: The route from formalities to Chartered Trade Mark Attorney
“A new Trade Mark Attorney joined the team and asked me one day why I had never considered qualifying as an attorney myself - and I found that I didn’t have a very good answer."
IP education turns a page
A series of fresh viewpoints on teaching IP.
Give them a warm welcome; Tips for new starters
Tips for helping new starters feel at home
What’s the point of networking? Identifying outcomes and goals
Networking can seem a daunting prospect, especially at the start of your career. However, going in with some clear goals in mind can lend some much needed confidence.
Failure: How to move forward
Success isn’t always a straight path, so what steps can students take when they encounter setbacks in their learning journey?
Why mentoring matters
Carol Nyahasha draws on her own experience to demonstrate the power of personal support in the profession.
Max‑impact presenting
Bernard Savage sets out how to make every conversation a conversion.
Webinar and lecture recordings
Our events will provide you with additional insight into key IP topics. We record our events so you can watch them on-demand.
Practical tips for specification drafting
Megan Rannard provided you with the tools and confidence to create clear, precise, and enforceable specifications.
Supporting staff wellbeing, mental health and work-life balance?
Our panellists from a range of different working environments spoke about the challenges they’ve faced in supporting staff wellbeing, mental health and work-life balance.
What UK practitioners need to know about US trade mark law
Understand the key tenets of trade mark registration and enforcement in the US.
Summer of IP: Becoming a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney
Gain insight into the community of trade mark professionals that CITMA can offer you, and the networking and career development opportunities that we provide.
CITMA Review features:
Twice as nice?
Four trade mark professionals describe the experience of being dual-qualified.
The trade mark 20: Tom Coop
CITMA member Tom Coop answers our questions. Find out more about Alfie the dog, where Tom wants to travel to and what trade mark he would be.
USPTO guidance applies current rules to AI
The USPTO hopes “to ensure AI is not misused – or left unchecked – in practice before our judicial boards”. Sponsored content in association with WebTMS.
“I am incredibly lucky to have a wealth of extended support”
Part-time working can thrive in our profession, believes Alice Anderson.
Case comments
Corporate veil continues Lifestyle Equities CV and another v Ahmed and another
Aaron Wood argues that this decision leaves uncertainty around some important issues. [2024] UKSC 17, Lifestyle Equities CV and another v Ahmed and another, Supreme Court.
Pulling focus: Puma SE v EUIPO
One celebrity social post can mean self-disclosure, warns Sarah Husslein. T-647/22, Puma SE v EUIPO – Handelsmaatschappij J Van Hilst BV, General Court, 6th March 2024
Big day for distinctiveness
Chris Hawkes explains why a bit of decoration won’t aid registration. O/026/24, 3-Dimensional Shape (Chocolate), UK IPO.
No great swindle in punk dispute: Howard Bates v Wayne Barrett-McGrath
Poor behaviour wasn’t put up with, writes Robert Franks. O/0441/24, Howard Bates v Wayne Barrett-McGrath, UK IPO.