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How to Protect your Intellectual Property
Wednesday 23rd June | 10:00 - 14:00
As a small business owner you have taken the steps to start or grow your business. You have read the relevant books and blogs, watched and listened to numerous webinars and podcasts and may even have started trading.
Now it’s time to understand how to protect you and your business.
Intellectual Property is an area of business, which is often misunderstood and overlooked. Join us for a practical session where we together we will get to grips with what IP or Intellectual Property means to you and how you can ensure you are protected.
The session will be facilitated by Janice Beckles, Business Advisor, Coach and Enterprise Trainer. Janice will also be joined by Katie Waite a Trade Mark Attorney.
Why you should attend?
Whether you are working on your business plan or growing your business it’s important you know and understand the fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Learning Objectives:
• Understand what intellectual property is and how you can protect yourself and your business
• Discuss the legal requirements regarding intellectual property, trademarks, patents and copyright
Prepared and Delivered by
Janice Beckles is a multi-faceted business consultant from Kent with a mission to empower people to live fulfilling and purposeful lives through personal development. Personal development is an important part of business, you cannot change your outer world without first changing and addressing your inner dimension.
Janice started her business in May 2004 after a series of workplace redundancies. The first redundancy shook her, but she got straight back up and found another suitable job. After the second redundancy, Janice decided that it was her destiny to be a business owner, so she set up her own consultancy business, B Consultancy Ltd, providing mentoring, coaching and training. Janice is a qualified teacher, accredited coach, mentor and business advisor. In 2017 she set up an accredited Institute of Leadership and Management Training Centre.
Janice has a great deal of commercial experience and has set up and run many worthwhile projects under the B Consultancy Ltd umbrella. The project provides participants with essential tools to navigate their career, business and life.
In addition to one-to-one services, Janice undertakes a range of essential training and consultancy services with local authorities. This work includes supporting self-employed individuals and providing vital training to front line staff on how to manage people, and give them the advice that they need, with a caring and compassionate attitude so that people are not left feeling undervalued. The training that Janice delivers is accredited, so there is a methodological framework that she follows and many business owners that she works with want a total change of direction, and Janice coaches them through this practically.
Janice currently delivers mentoring and training to students at Newham College of Further Education, London Southbank University and Ravensbourne University.
Who should attend?
This workshop is suitable for pre start-ups/start-ups and growing businesses based in London.
How to attend this workshop
If you are registered with the Enterprise Steps programme and would like to attend this workshop please click the register button below. Please note: You will be directed to a password protected Eventbrite page. All programme participants are emailed passwords weekly.
This event is fully subsidised – for eligible clients only and places are limited, so book now to secure your space.
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