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Mentoring: resolving problems
Planning for the situation where a mentoring relationship breaks down
Planning, buying and stocking substrate for your printing business
Buying and stocking procedures can help printing businesses to reduce waste substrate and cut costs
Reduce waste during production and finishing in your printing business
How printing businesses can reduce unnecessary waste during the production and finishing processes
Printing business common types of waste
The different options that printing businesses should consider when dealing with common types of waste
How to make money from trade marks
Different ways to monetise your trade marks include licensing, transferring or mortgaging your marks, or using them to promote your business
Enforcing your trade mark
How to enforce a trade mark to ensure that it remains protected, including when to use TM and ® symbol
Defending trade marks against infringement
How to deal with infringement of UK trade marks, including remedies and defences in infringement cases
Trade mark monitoring
How to track trade marks in the UK or abroad, use trade mark search services and register for caveats to monitor applications for trade mark registration
How to use your copyright
Understand what copyright is, who owns it and how to use it to protect your work or your business
How to enforce your copyright
How to protect your copyright and enforce your rights through court proceedings and mediation
What is intellectual property crime?
The different types of IP crime can be divided into digital IP crime and physical IP crime
Designing products for end-of-life treatment
Making products so that they can be reused, recycled or remanufactured when they are no longer fit for use
What is remanufacturing?
What remanufacturing is and how this process is different from other methods of product reuse and recycling
Design infringement
How to protect your designs against infringement and take action against someone if you think they have copied your design
Advantages and disadvantages of licensing patents
Understand the pros and cons of patent licensing, including potential risks for both patent holder and licensees
Patent infringement
How to ensure that your patent is protected and what to do if you infringe another person's patent
Changing and updating your patent
If you own a patent, you must tell the Intellectual Property Office if details in the patents register are wrong or you need to change them
Renewing your patent
To keep your patent valid, you must pay the renewal fees regularly - first four years after filing and then every year up to a maximum of 20 years
Resolving patent disputes
What are the most common types of patent disputes and how to resolve them by using mediation, requesting opinions and through the UK IPO hearings
Renew your trade mark registration
You can renew UK registered trade marks every 10 years – you must apply for renewal on time to prevent your registration expiring