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.
Risk, relevance and resources: mastering trade mark searches
Searching and clearance aren’t just legal formalities, they are opportunities for paralegals to make a real impact. Learn how to assess risk and support smarter decisions.
Future-proof your EU design strategy
EU design law is undergoing its most significant reform in decades - are your filing strategies prepared?
Beyond expiry: extending the life of design rights
Understand the different IP rights that can protect 2D and 3D designs, including their limitations.
Stronger together: how community drives mental wellbeing
Our speakers shared how their communities are fostering positive change.
CITMA Review features:
Dig into designs
Bird & Bird offers a snapshot of some of the most noteworthy cases coming before EU national courts over recent months.
Exchanging expectations
Tracy Powley explains a method for fighting workplace frustration.
To give and to get
Amelia Skelding has gathered first-hand reflections that demonstrate how mentoring makes a difference.
Lingua fracas
Jean-Philippe Mikus predicts litigation as new translation rules take effect.
Case comments
Vidiem grinds out a victory
Decision shows the defining role of strong evidence in proving bad faith, says Steven Jennings. O/0052/25, Maya Appliances Pvt Ltd v Prapaharan Sivaratnam, UK IPO.
Chicken shop fate
Roshani Muniweera digests the latest episode in a continuing clash. [2025] EWCA Civ 186, Morley’s (Fast Foods) Ltd v Nanthakumar and others, Court of Appeal.
Granini has last laugh
Lauren Fisher deals us in on the joker jostling. B 3 202 021, Granini France v Euro Games Technology Ltd, EUIPO.
Line of confusion
Susannah Slevin suggests questions surround the registration of basic shapes. T-195/24, VistaJet Ltd v EUIPO, General Court.