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Evaluate your ecodesign products
How to use feedback from production and sales departments to ensure the manufacture of profitable ecodesign products
What higher education is
Types of higher education qualifications that are available to your employees
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
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
How to build and manage an effective team
How building successful teams and effectively managing teamwork can benefit your business
Advantages of effective teamwork
Teamwork can bring many benefits to your business helping you to solve problems, generate new ideas and pursue opportunities
What can cause a team to be ineffective?
Reasons why teams may fail to work and achieve their business goals
Steps to building an effective team in the workplace
Factors you should consider when building teams to successfully achieve business goals
Team management tips
How to effectively manage your teams and encourage harmonious teamwork
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
IP rights: patents
What is a patent, how to apply for one, and how to use and enforce it to protect your business' intellectual property
Objecting to and challenging trade marks
How to oppose trade mark registration, on what grounds, and how to object to trade marks before or after registration
Using other people's trade marks
How to avoid infringing on other people's trade marks and what to do if you face an infringement claim