The Go Succeed Start team hosts this workshop, which is a focused webinar designed to assist small business owners, entrepreneurs, and start-ups in navigating the complex financing options available to small businesses.

About this Session:

'Trademarking Your Business - Everything you Need to Know' will explore:

• What a trade mark is
• Types of trade marks
• How trade marks add value to your business
• Ensuring your brand is distinctive
• Trade mark searches - avoiding legal disputes by ensuring your trade mark doesn't infringe existing prior trade marks
• Protection of brand / brand exclusivity
• Various trade mark registration systems
• Enforcement - preventing competitors from using similar trade marks

This Go Succeed workshop is open to all individuals in the early stages of their business, throughout Northern Ireland, and is facilitated by Enterprise Northern Ireland.

About the Presenter

David is a qualified European and UK Trade Mark Attorney and an experienced IP practitioner. His strategic and proactive outlook helps to ensure that his clients’ brands are adequately protected, both at the national and international level. Many of David’s clients are market leaders and require legal advice which is both clear and commercially practical. His pragmatic approach helps his clients to meet their commercial needs and objectives in the marketplace.

David advises clients on all aspects of trade mark and brand protection; this includes the adoption of new trade marks, clearing marks for use in the marketplace and selecting the most suitable trade mark registration systems. His wealth of experience in devising global trade mark strategies ensures that trade mark registration in key markets is prioritised and achieved as efficiently as possible for his clients. His attention to detail ensures constructive and effective trade mark portfolio management, comprehensive IP audits and thorough due diligence work.

David has a particular interest in trade mark infringement, passing off and opposition matters. The global trade mark watches he puts in place to ensure that conflicting trade marks are flagged and brought to his clients’ attention. He works to ensure that trade mark infringers are identified and tackled immediately, so as to prevent customer confusion, loss of sales or damage to his clients’ brands.

Registration instructions: This event is free for individuals and will be hosted online via MS Teams.  Please note, your email confirmation, Live Stream link and access code will come from noreply@glistrr.com, please add this to your list of trusted accounts to prevent information landing in your junk folder. 

This workshop is brought to you as part of Go Succeed NI.  Go Succeed represents a significant investment in local entrepreneurs and businesses, funded by the UK Government.