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.
How to say no – without sounding negative
As a new starter, it can be difficult to turn down colleagues’ requests – especially when you’re trying to come across as a team player
‘Should I take a sandwich year?’
Becky Campbell, now a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney for Marks & Clerk LLP, shares her thoughts on the positives and negatives of taking time in the middle.
What I wish I knew when I was a trainee
Mark Caddle, now a partner at Withers & Rogers, shares his time as a trainee and what his advice would be to his younger self.
Five questions with Eve Brown
It’s not easy balancing study, exams, work and your personal life. We get the low-down on how student representative Eve Brown manages it all.
Hello, IPO!
What did a group of newly qualified attorneys learn from going behind the scenes in Newport?
Introducing Eve, your CITMA student representative
Eve Brown of Marks & Clerk was recently selected as the student representative on CITMA's Council
Can you move jobs after only a short time in training as a trade mark attorney?
Can you move jobs after only a short time in training as a trade mark attorney? Pete Fellows says ‘yes’ but then adds a whole lot of caveats and advice. It’s never simple is it?
Case comments
Expand your knowledge of key IP cases with insight from peers across the profession. You can also dip into our archive to find cases from the past few years.
Confusion is a complex concept
The courts are bound to take in the bigger picture, writes Beverley Potts. [2021] EWCA Civ 425, UK Gymnastics Ltd, UK Gymnastics Affiliation Ltd & Christopher Adams v British Amateur Gymnastics Association, Court of Appeal, 24th March 2021.
Cheesed off
The latest appeal related to Halloumi has amounted to nothing, Ellie Wilson reports. T-282/19, Foundation for the Protection of the Traditional Cheese of Cyprus named Halloumi v EUIPO, General Court, 24th March 2021
Safety Bull takes all
For Peter Collie, this case is an interesting illustration of conceptual meaning’s role in finding indirect confusion. O/097/21, BULL (Opposition), UK IPO, 9th February 2021.
Present and corrected
Charlotte Wilding highlights the danger of relying solely on dictum. B 3 017 194, Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc. v Shenzhen Jia Li Fu Kang Logistics Co. Ltd, EUIPO, 23rd March 2021.
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.
Hot property - The scope and scale of global counterfeiting
Phil Lewis uncovered how recent international strategies and political changes have raised new challenges in tackling IP crime.
Brexit and designs
Rose Smalley-Gordon set out the key differences between those protection regimes coming from UK law vs. EU law. In turn, raising key points to be aware of in relation to design protection going forward.
South American trade mark round up
Highlighting key case law updates from courts and PTO's across Argentina, Brazil and Peru, our speakers set out how trade mark proceedings are evolving in South America.
Celebrating Pride
Our panel discussed what Pride means to them, why openness and acceptance in the profession is key and how to come out and bring all of who you are to the workplace.
CITMA Review
Our magazine gives you features and case comments that will help you enhance your knowledge.
CITMA Review July 21
Read the July/August issue of CITMA Review online.
CITMA Review May 21
Read the May/June issue of CITMA Review online.
CITMA Review March
Read the March/April issue of CITMA Review online.
CITMA Review December
Read the December issue of CITMA Review online.
Case comments
Confusion is a complex concept
The courts are bound to take in the bigger picture, writes Beverley Potts. [2021] EWCA Civ 425, UK Gymnastics Ltd, UK Gymnastics Affiliation Ltd & Christopher Adams v British Amateur Gymnastics Association, Court of Appeal, 24th March 2021.
Cheesed off
The latest appeal related to Halloumi has amounted to nothing, Ellie Wilson reports. T-282/19, Foundation for the Protection of the Traditional Cheese of Cyprus named Halloumi v EUIPO, General Court, 24th March 2021
Safety Bull takes all
For Peter Collie, this case is an interesting illustration of conceptual meaning’s role in finding indirect confusion. O/097/21, BULL (Opposition), UK IPO, 9th February 2021.
Present and corrected
Charlotte Wilding highlights the danger of relying solely on dictum. B 3 017 194, Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc. v Shenzhen Jia Li Fu Kang Logistics Co. Ltd, EUIPO, 23rd March 2021.