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How to design packaging for reuse
Reuse of products such as packaging once their primary use is over can bring cost saving for your business and others
How to design packaging for recycling
How your business can design different types of packaging to ensure higher levels of recycling by end users
How to design packaging for energy recovery
Designing your packaging products to allow for energy to be recovered from the used packaging at approved facilities
How to design packaging for composting
Designing your packaging products to enable easier composting when being dealt with by end users
Open data opportunities for business
What is open data, where to find open data in Northern Ireland, and how to make the most of its business opportunities.
Trade mark tips for beginners
12 things that small business owners need to know in order to protect and manage their valuable trade marks
Passing off: definition, remedies and defences
Understand the common law of passing off, possible remedies for trade mark misrepresentation and passing off defences
Post-grant opposition of patents
How to challenge the validity of a granted patent or file an opposition in court to try to invalidate or revoke a patent
Register a trade mark outside the UK
How to register a trade mark in Europe and internationally by applying for EU trade mark registration or applying under the WIPO's Madrid protocol
Bringing a new product to market - Reynolds Hurling (video)
Reynolds Hurling share their experience of bringing an innovative product to market
What is Industry 4.0?
Introduction into the key concepts, principles and components of Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution
Business benefits of Industry 4.0
Discover the advantages of using digital technologies to help you reduce costs, increase efficiency and revenue, and improve customer experience
Research and development
Understand the importance of research and development for the success of new products, services and ideas
Getting a product to market - Babocush (video)
Kerry Nevins, the creator of Babocush baby comfort cushion, shares her thoughts on new product design and development
IP rights: copyright
What is copyright, when does it apply, and how you can use it to protect your intellectual property
IP rights: trade marks
What are trade marks, and how to register trade marks to protect your brand, products or business
IP rights: designs
An overview of design as an intellectual property asset and advice on how to use unregistered and registered designs to secure your IP
Internal research and development
How to carry out internal research and development and leverage the benefits of keeping research in-house
Water use authorisations
When you need an authorisation or licence for taking or storing water from a surface or groundwater source
Reduce, reuse and recycle packaging
How to save your business money by reducing the amount of packaging you use, and other efficiency ideas