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.
Career paths: The route from formalities to Chartered Trade Mark Attorney
“A new Trade Mark Attorney joined the team and asked me one day why I had never considered qualifying as an attorney myself - and I found that I didn’t have a very good answer."
IP education turns a page
A series of fresh viewpoints on teaching IP.
Give them a warm welcome; Tips for new starters
Tips for helping new starters feel at home
What’s the point of networking? Identifying outcomes and goals
Networking can seem a daunting prospect, especially at the start of your career. However, going in with some clear goals in mind can lend some much needed confidence.
Failure: How to move forward
Success isn’t always a straight path, so what steps can students take when they encounter setbacks in their learning journey?
Why mentoring matters
Carol Nyahasha draws on her own experience to demonstrate the power of personal support in the profession.
Max‑impact presenting
Bernard Savage sets out how to make every conversation a conversion.
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.
Trade mark infringement remedies
With practical insights into how damages are assessed and what influences litigation outcomes, this session will equip you with the knowledge to guide your clients effectively through the final stages of a dispute.
Best practices in anti-counterfeiting UK and Australia
Gain practical tools and proven strategies to protect your brand in today’s evolving landscape.
Unlock the key to navigating insolvency and IP
Understand how to evaluate the risks and benefits of acquiring or realising IP assets from an insolvent business and develop strategies to protect your clients’ licensing agreements and IP interests.
Uniting perspectives: embracing religious diversity in the profession
This webinar aims to promote understanding of different religions and how we can all, as individuals or firms, better support religious diversity in the workplace.
CITMA Review features:
Trade mark tracks
As World IP Day invites us to muse on music, Allister McManus charts some interesting industry cases.
Conference confidential
IP conferences are an opportunity to grow your network and your knowledge. Our panel puts five of them on your radar.
Speaking volumes
What’s behind another year of booming application numbers? Robert Reading dials us in.
At the sharp end
Colin Hulme and Andrew McDonald point out a looming deadline for putting cloned UK marks to genuine use.
Case comments
Take two
There can be good reason to argue dual grounds, suggests Maya Muchemwa. O/1030/24, Baraqah Ltd v G & G Srl, UK IPO.
Who’s the boss?
Impressive evidence established the answer, writes Julia King. O/1028/24, Gym Boss Ltd v Hugo Boss Trade Mark Management GmbH & Co KG, UK IPO.
On the straight and narrow
The UK’s highest court brought closure to a persistent conflict, reports Antony Yerasimou. [2024] UKSC 36, SkyKick UK Ltd and another v Sky Ltd and others, Supreme Court.
Pet insurers put up a fight
Sarah Neil summarises a case that gives ‘paws’ for thought. [2024] EWCA Civ 1103, TVIS Ltd v Howserv Services Ltd and others, Court of Appeal.