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Employment agencies providing additional services and goods
Rules and legal requirements for employment agencies that provide additional services or goods to jobseekers
Mentoring versus coaching
The differences between coaching and mentoring and how your business might benefit from one over the other
Clarifying mentoring roles
The importance of clearly defining all aspects of the mentoring relationship
Mentoring types
Different types of mentoring, including one-to-one, group and remote mentoring
Mentoring programmes: monitoring, evaluating and reviewing
How to monitor and assess your business mentoring programme
Mentoring: resolving problems
Planning for the situation where a mentoring relationship breaks down
How to make money from trade marks
Different ways to monetise your trade marks include licensing, transferring or mortgaging your marks, or using them to promote your business
Enforcing your trade mark
How to enforce a trade mark to ensure that it remains protected, including when to use TM and ® symbol
Defending trade marks against infringement
How to deal with infringement of UK trade marks, including remedies and defences in infringement cases
Trade mark monitoring
How to track trade marks in the UK or abroad, use trade mark search services and register for caveats to monitor applications for trade mark registration
How to use your copyright
Understand what copyright is, who owns it and how to use it to protect your work or your business
How to enforce your copyright
How to protect your copyright and enforce your rights through court proceedings and mediation
What is intellectual property crime?
The different types of IP crime can be divided into digital IP crime and physical IP crime
Design infringement
How to protect your designs against infringement and take action against someone if you think they have copied your design
Advantages and disadvantages of licensing patents
Understand the pros and cons of patent licensing, including potential risks for both patent holder and licensees
Patent infringement
How to ensure that your patent is protected and what to do if you infringe another person's patent
Changing and updating your patent
If you own a patent, you must tell the Intellectual Property Office if details in the patents register are wrong or you need to change them
Renewing your patent
To keep your patent valid, you must pay the renewal fees regularly - first four years after filing and then every year up to a maximum of 20 years
Resolving patent disputes
What are the most common types of patent disputes and how to resolve them by using mediation, requesting opinions and through the UK IPO hearings
Renew your trade mark registration
You can renew UK registered trade marks every 10 years – you must apply for renewal on time to prevent your registration expiring