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.
Tackling trade mark hurdles: objections & refusals
Learn strategies for addressing specification objections and overcoming absolute grounds refusals.
Fallout from the Supreme Court Amazon decision
Explore the evolving legal standards for determining when a business is considered to have "targeted" consumers in the UK and EU, particularly in the context of online sales and marketing.
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.
CITMA Review features:
GCC: What’s going on?
Nicole Giblin and Mark Devaney provide an update on key recent developments in Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
SDGs + IP
The editors of a new book explain trade mark law’s unique role in meeting global sustainability goals.
Where there's smoke
Matthew Harris explores some of the fiery battles at the centre of a volatile retail sector.
On the offensive
Cherrie Stewart delves into the world of outrageous marks and derives some important lessons.
Case comments
Close contact causes concern
Personal relationships and unpleasant revelations were exposed in this case, says Olivia McBride. O/0526/24, Kerstin Reinwald v International Nutrition Researcher Center, Inc, UK IPO.
Big Mac scaled back
Louise Foster explores the judgment in the appeal brought by Supermac’s (Holdings) Ltd against the Board of Appeal (BoA) decision. T-58/23, Supermac’s (Holdings) Ltd v EUIPO, General Court.
Short story settled
David Birchall explains why identical letters didn’t spell confusion. R 362/2024-2, SEVEN SPA v Jakob Simon International GmbH, EUIPO.
It ain't what they did
David Yeomans explores how infringement was found in this case. [2024] EWHC 1727 (IPEC), AGA Rangemaster Group Ltd v UK Innovations Group Ltd and another, IPEC.