Delivered by the Reference Team at the British Library. 

Intellectual property and its protection is vital for anyone with a business idea. This all-day workshop will help you understand the multiple areas of intellectual property and their relevance to your business, as well as provide you with practical tips on how to utilise the BIPC’s resources to protect, research, and develop your business idea. By the end of the session you will understand and identify the importance of intellectual property in your own business and know the next steps to protect it.

‘Business Research and Information’ (AM) will cover:

• The fundamentals of using the BIPC’s and your library’s resources to develop a strategic roadmap for your business

• Introduction to databases, industry guides, external resources lists, internet and library resources

• Value Proposition: trend, values, sustainability, wider issues

• Customer Segmentation: market research and customer discovery and understanding

• Partnership: company data and competitors

• Key Resources: research my IP and funding streams

• Help you make informed business decisions, plan and offer value to your customer

‘How to Protect my Business Idea’ (PM) will cover:

• Introduce the four areas of intellectual property (IP) – patents, trademarks, registered designs and copyright

• Help you understand which areas may apply to you and your business

• Examples of everyday IP in our lives

• A deeper dive into IP: time limits, registered or unregistered and other practical examples

About your facilitators

Gail Mitchell is a Business & IP Specialist at the Business & IP Centre (BIPC) at the British Library. Gail has worked for the BIPC for many years, helping customers with their research and reference, as well as delivering workshops, one-to-one advice clinics and project work to businesses related to the services and resources held in the Business & IP Centre.

Julie Boadilla is a Business & IP Specialist at the Business & IP Centre (BIPC) at the British Library. Julie has worked for the BIPC for many years, helping customers with their research and reference, as well as delivering workshops, one-to-one advice clinics and project work to businesses related to the services and resources held in the Business & IP Centre.

When signing up to Kickstart Your Business, please fill out this registration form as well as registering on Eventbrite. As this project is funded by J.P. Morgan, this is important for our funding purposes. If you have previously completed this form, you do not need to fill this out again.

This is the first part of a two-day offering. To make the most of the free business support offered by the Kickstart Your Business programme, please also book to attend the Day 2 webinar – ‘Get Started’ – alongside this workshop.

Please contact bipcldn@bl.uk if you have any queries.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your participation in this event, please contact bipcldn@bl.uk so we can discuss this with you.

These are fully funded programmes. Failure to attend on two separate occasions without prior cancellation will result in you being barred from attending future workshops. This is due to the cost of setting up each workshop and making preparations based on the number of sign-ups. Please refer to our Bookings and Cancellations policy below.