IP Fundamentals: Trade Marks in Practice and Professional Skills
Unravel trade marks and catapult your career by attending this day packed with law, practice and procedure. Explore interesting cases and how trade marks interact with domain names and patents. Explore overcoming IP Australia objections then dive into non-use and cancellations actions, trade marking for business including group assignments, licenses and sale of registered trade marks. Sharpen the blurred lines of oppositions practice and procedure, all delivered by leading experts. WEB2210N61C
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Substantive Law
2 units in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Glenn McGowan KC, Partner & Chief Counsel, Gadens; Recommended Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2022
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm Trade Marks in Practice:
Take a really practical journey through the ‘how to’ in relation to a trade marks practice:
- Select which trade marks to register and how to deal with non-registered marks
- Sub-brands creation
- Tools to overcome rejection by the examiner
- Portfolio development and risk mitigation
- Requests for consent
- Group assignments
- Licenses and sale of registered trade marks
Presented by Melissa McGrath, Barrister, Nigel Bowen Chambers; Recommended Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2021
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Trade Mark Oppositions: Getting the Practice and Procedure Right
- Opposition timeframes
- Preparing notices of opposition
- Selecting grounds of opposition
- Preparation of evidence
- Hearings
- Extensions of time
- Costs
- Appeals
Presented by Karen Mak, Barrister & Nationally Accredited Mediator, Svenson Barristers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
4.15pm to 5.15pm Fixing Problems: Case Study in Minimising the Consequences of an Inadvertently Lapsed Right
- Missed deadlines, grace period, late fees and unintended loss of rights
- Covid extensions
- Extensions under s 224
- Other circumstances under s 44(3)(b) and informal information or other circumstances under s 41(4)(b)(iii)
- Take away key practical problem-solving skills that you can immediately apply in your practice
Presented by Hayley Tarr, Principal, Tarr Law; Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards 2021 Finalist