qLegal event: Essential Legal Issues to Consider for your Business

4 December 2014

Time: 12:00pm Venue: Google Campus, 4-5 Bonhill St, London EC2A 4BX

Entrepreneurs (generally) are not lawyers, and may not know the full extent of how the law can help or hurt them. In fact, there are many legal considerations that impact start-up companies and entrepreneurs, particularly in the areas of business formation and structuring, employment and intellectual property protection. This fireside chat will touch on these topics and more, and teach students about the core legal issues that affect small businesses.

In this free event, qLegal advisers will teach you about:

• Setting up your company: Do I need to set up a company? When and how should I organise my business?
• Intellectual Property: What is IP and what should I consider protecting?
• Employment and Interacting with third Parties: Do I need employment contracts or consultancy arrangements?

This event is free but prior booking is required. Please register via the qLegal Eventbrite page.

qLegal workshop: What is Intellectual Property and why is it so important?

4 December 2014

Time: 6:00pm Venue: School for Start-ups, Somerset House South Wing, Strand, London WC2R 0LQ

What is intellectual property and why is it important for your business?

Confused over the different types of intellectual property and how these apply to your business? In this free workshop qLegal advisers will explain:

• What intellectual property is
• Types of intellectual property rights
• The importance of IP
• Copyright, designs, trademarks, patents and trade secrets

To attend this event, please visit the registration page.

qLegal workshop: Intellectual Property: How do I protect my business assets?

9 December 2014

Time: 6:00pm Venue: Room 3.1, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB

In this free workshop qLegal advisers will:

• Explain what are IP rights? How do IP rights differ (trademark, copyright, patent etc.)?
• Illustrate examples of the different types of IP
• Summarise the commercial considerations in protecting IP

This event is free but prior booking is required. Please register via the qLegal Eventbrite page.

Intellectual Property, Copyright, Licensing and Commercialisation (IPCLC) Workshop

11 December 2014

Time: 12:00am Venue: TBC

With representation from the qLegal team (Patrick Cahill) and case studies from University of Oxford Research Services and the Open PHACTS Foundation, panel Q&A and discussion sessions, the workshop will help you make informed decisions about Intellectual Property (IP), Copyright, Licensing and other aspects of commercialisation. Whatever your role in research, there will be something for you at the workshop. The focus of the workshop will be on digital assets such as software, data and models.

The workshop will discuss IP issues and how they relate to academic research and collaborative projects. There will be plenty of opportunities to ask experts your questions, and to get advice about your concerns or areas of confusion.

The workshop will also be the ideal opportunity for IP professionals from innovation departments in academia to meet a broad range of researchers and  gain an understanding of the issues that concern them – and the solutions they have found.

To attend this event please visit the registration page.

For more information please contact qlegal@qmul.ac.uk