As we come to the end of the maiden year of the CIPA Informal's welfare officer role (and my last few weeks in said role), one of the most important days in the mental health calendar approaches: World Suicide Prevention Day, on 10th September.
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When a company or individual is looking for IP advice, their first contact with us is typically a call to one of our offices, or sending an email to our ip@appleyardlees.com inbox.
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On the 21st June 2021, I received a message from another trainee in my firm that the results for the European Qualifying Examinations (EQEs) had been released online.
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On day one as a trainee patent attorney most people are bewildered by a range of acronyms (PCT, WIPO, EPO, USPTO, OA, ISA, IPRP… etc.) and law that on first reading makes no sense.
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Firstly, there is no getting around the fact that drafting, filing and prosecuting a patent application can be expensive. The cost can be even more significant for individual applicants, start-ups and SMEs. This is compounded when you consider the possibility that your patent application might not be granted.
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Each member of the life sciences team is given the opportunity to write an article for our website, and in April it was my turn. We can choose a subject we are particularly interested in or something related to what we have been working on.
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Here in the Manchester office, on the second Thursday of every month, all of the technical staff (read: patent attorneys, trade mark attorneys, solicitors, and trainees) are invited to take part in informal meetings that currently go under the name of Tek Talks.
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Trainee attorneys Jonathan Foster and Emily Bevan-Smith talk about their experience of the most recent (and possibly final) lockdown trainee social.
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Like many, I’ve always had an interest in keeping up with trends by buying new electronic goods or shopping for the latest outfits – the cheaper the price, the better...right?
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Over the past few weeks, many of the patent trainees here at Appleyard Lees have received exam results from the UK PEB exams sat in October 2020, and from the more recent pre-EQE exam sat in March 2021. A number of our trainees passed both exams.
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Last year, a new role was created within the Informals – Welfare Officer. The predominant driving force behind creating the role was the charity Jonathan’s Voice – a charity founded in 2017 in memory of Patent Attorney Jonathan McCartney, who tragically took his own life that year.
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