Presentation to IPO seminar "Protecting Your Ideas and Inventions" at Leeds Central Library on 15 September 2010, Discusses intellectual property rights owners' options for enforcing their rights: civil litigation, insurance (before and after-the-event), collecting societies, proceedings in the IPO, domain name dispute resolution, mediation and arbitration,

1. Enforcement Jane Lambert www.nipclaw.com

3. Counterfeiting, and

4. PiracyIP Infringement is no crime

5. So it is up to the owner to enforce his or her IPR.

6. Compared to continental Europe civil litigation is expensive in England.

7. Because success fee is insufficient incentive for risk, cost and delay, very few good IP lawyers will accept instructions on a “no win, no fee” retainer.

8. Most legal indemnity policies exclude IP cases so IP owners should consider IP insurance if they can afford the premiums.

9. Some copyright owners and performers can join a collecting society which grants licences on behalf of all its members in return for royalties which it divides between them and suing any user who fails to pay.

11. whether a product infringes a patent;

13. whether a trade mark should be or should have been granted

14. whether a design should have been registered; and

16. Domain Name Disputes can be referred to the WIPO (UN agency for IP), Nominet or Czech Arbitration Court for Documents only Arbitration.

17. IPO, WIPO and several other mediators including www.nipc-mediation.co.uk offer mediation of IP Disputes.

18. IPO, WIPO and several other arbitrators including www.nipcarb.co.uk offer arbitration of IP Disputes.

20. Patents and TM Attorneys who are accredited by CIPA or ITMA to conduct litigation

21. Barristers who are members of IPBA or could join it.Be careful of all others!

22. Any Questions Jane Lambert Jane.lambert@nipclaw.com www.nipclaw.com 0800 862 0055