The Trade Mark Administrator Training Course (ONLINE EVENT: December 2-3, 2024)

This one-day trade mark administrator training course has been specifically designed for trade mark administrators, formalities assistants and other IP support staff dealing with trade marks.?

This course will provide a comprehensive overview of:

• What trademarks are
• How to choose new trade marks
• The process of registration at UKIPO, EUIPO, WIPO
• Contentious proceedings
• Recording changes on the Trade Mark Register
• Administration of your domain name portfolio

The expert trainer will use her extensive experience and knowledge to bring the topics alive and work through a number of case studies throughout the sessions to ensure delegates get the most from this course.

Why you should attend

• Improve your understanding of the trademark process
• Learn how to register your trademark using the most commonly used registration systems
• Understand the importance of accuracy in your role
• Gain practical time-saving tips
• Get insights into best practices

Certification:

• CPD: 6 hours for your records
• Certificate of completion

Agenda

Introduction to trade marks

• What is a trademark?
• Why register a trademark?
• The structure of the registers (typically national v. the more international nature of many businesses)

Choosing new trade marks

• Inherent registrability and market acceptability
• Relative registrability; searching and clearance
• Lawyers in collaboration with marketing colleagues

Registration and prosecution

• Understanding registration at UKIPO, EUIPO, WIPO
• Applying to register
• Communicating with the UKIPO, EUIPO, WIPO
• Outline of the process
• Objections (relative and absolute grounds)
• Responses, evidence and acquired distinctiveness

Pitfalls and practicalities around the world

• Timeframes
• Sanctions
• Documentary requirements
• Office practices

Contentious proceedings - opposition, invalidity and revocation

• Opposition
• Revocation
• Invalidity
• Evidence
• Hearing and appeal

Recording changes on the trade mark register

• When will you need to record changes and why?
• How to deal with changes

Renewal and maintenance

• Overview
• Databases
• Renewal agencies v. In-house

Administration of a Domain Name Portfolio

• Overview of portfolio management
• Use of Domain Name Management Companies
• Watching services
• Maintenance of domain names
• Renewals
• Achieving a ‘tidy’ portfolio
• Ownership of domains
• Controlling the filing of domains
• UDRP - domain disputes
• acquisition of domain names
• Pointing/technical issues
• Social media handles

Speakers

• Victoria Silk, BAT

Victoria Silk is Senior Counsel, Trade Marks – New Category Products for BAT. She is a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and in-house Counsel. She qualified in London in 2005 and spent 6 years in-house with ICI paints before becoming Virgin’s in-house Trade Mark Attorney in Geneva in 2011. She joined BAT in 2017.