Businesses offered free consultations on trade mark and patent rights

The theme of this year’s World IP Day is ‘promoting green innovation as the key to a secure future,’ so inventors or entrepreneurs with a product idea or a brand that is low-carbon or involves sustainable technology will be particularly welcome.

Interested businesses should email Margaret Mitchell at the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, MargaretM@cipa.org.uk or call her on 020 7405 9450.

Notes for editors

To mark World Intellectual Property Day, 26 April (which falls on a Sunday this year), four of the UK’s leading organisations in the field of intellectual property have joined forces to offer valuable IP advice to small businesses.  The organisations are:

CIPA Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
ITMA Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys
IPO Intellectual Property Office
BIPC British Library Business & IP Centre

The theme of this year’s World IP Day is ‘promoting green innovation as the key to a secure future.’  More information is available on the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s website: 

www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/world_ip/2005/activities.html

For further information, contact:

Ken Storey ITMA PR Manager Tel:  020 8941 6079 or
Peter Prowse of CIPA on Tel:  01372 271234, mobile: 07973 213039