Protecting Your Ideas: A Simple Guide to Intellectual Property
What is intellectual property, and why should it matter to your business?
Intellectual property (IP) rights can offer businesses more than protection for their ideas. This workshop introduces the different intellectual property rights available to businesses, what they do and how you can use them to your advantage.
You'll explore patents, trade marks, designs, copyright and more, including how each type of intellectual property right works and how you can get them.
The workshop will also explore how intellectual property rights can have wider implications, including for taxation and immigration.
What will I learn?
During the workshop, you'll explore:
Understanding intellectual property
Learn what intellectual property is and why IP rights can matter to your business.
Patents
Explore what patents do, the requirements involved and how inventions may qualify for patent protection.
Trade marks
Understand what trade marks do and how businesses can get them.
Designs
Explore intellectual property rights relating to designs and how they can be protected.
Copyright
Learn about copyright and how it differs from other types of intellectual property rights.
Using intellectual property in your business
Explore how intellectual property rights can be used to your advantage and the benefits they can provide beyond protecting your ideas.
Why should businesses understand intellectual property?
Intellectual property rights can help protect ideas and other aspects of a business, but their potential benefits can go further.
The workshop will explore the different rights available and how they can be used, as well as wider areas where intellectual property can have an impact, including taxation and immigration.
You'll also explore some of the requirements involved in securing different IP rights. These may be lower than you expect, particularly when it comes to patents.
Date: Thur 3 Dec
Time: 10am - 12pm
Venue: Electric Works, 3 Concourse Way, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BJ
**Please only sign up to one of our events if you are definitely planning to attend. Spaces are limited and we want to make sure the businesses that really want this support get it.
If you can’t make an event, it’s no problem as long as you let us know before the workshop. If you sign-up and don’t attend an event, we will contact you afterwards to check in and if this happens more than once, it will jeopardise your ability to sign up to future events.**
Prices
Free but places are limited and must be booked. Book here
Additional Information
Frequently asked questions
What is intellectual property?
This workshop will explain intellectual property and introduce the different IP rights available to businesses, including patents, trade marks, designs and copyright.
Why is intellectual property important for businesses?
Intellectual property rights can provide businesses with protection for their ideas and other benefits. The workshop explores how different IP rights can be used to your advantage.
What types of intellectual property will the workshop cover?
The workshop covers patents, trade marks, designs, copyright and other intellectual property rights.
What is the difference between patents, trade marks, designs and copyright?
The workshop will explain what each intellectual property right does and how you can get them.
Will I learn about patents?
Yes. The workshop will explore patents, including the requirements involved and how inventions may qualify for patent protection.
Does an invention need to be a major breakthrough to be patented?
The workshop will explore the requirements for patents, including the misconception that an invention always needs to represent a big leap to potentially qualify.
Will the workshop explain how to get intellectual property rights?
Yes. The session will explain what the different rights do and how to get them.
Can intellectual property affect taxation?
The workshop will explore how intellectual property rights can have an impact on taxation.
Can intellectual property affect immigration?
The workshop will explore how intellectual property rights can have an impact on immigration.
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