This course is delivered by the Graduate School in Partnership with the Intellectual Property Office and the Library Research Support Team

Target audience: Early stage postgraduate research students and early career researchers

 Understanding and properly handling issues around intellectual property is a legal obligation, and also goes to the heart of academic research ethics. We recommend all postgraduate students who are starting to work towards a Masters (by research) dissertation or doctoral thesis in science, engineering and medicine and health sciences to attend this course, to develop an understanding of the implications of intellectual property rules at each stage of the research process

Process: This is a 1.5 hour presentation/seminar

 

Description: 

This course will address the sorts of questions around intellectual property and copyright with which researchers are continually faced, including:

·       How can I protect my work for future commercial use?

·       Who owns the Intellectual Property and what is the University procedure for commercial exploitation?

·       When does IP protection run out?

The course will cover intellectual property rights that must be registered such as patents, designs, Trademarks.

 

The course will address your rights in relation to your own original work, both from an academic and possible future commercial point of view.

Aims:

To develop your understanding of the implications of intellectual property for the planning, conducting, presenting and possible commercial exploitation of original research.

To safeguard the academic and legal integrity of research activity.

 

Objectives:

By the end of the course you will understand your rights in relation to your own work from an academic and potential future commercial perspective in order to protect your original work

Related Courses:

 

If you would like to explore copyright and intellectual property issues relevant to your own research in more detail you may want to attend 

Resolving Copyright Challenges in your Research (Arts and Social Sciences)

Resolving Copyright Challenges in your Research for Faculties of Sci/Eng/MHS

Copyright and publication for the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences

Identifying & Managing Intellectual Property Issues in your Research

 

Booking Conditions

Latecomer policy

Researchers should plan to arrive prior to the advertised course start time. Except for exceptional reasons, there will be no admittance to a Researcher Academy or Faculty Training Programme (FTP) course 15 minutes after the advertised course start time.

Importance of booking commitment

When booking on to a Researcher Academy short course you are entering into a commitment to attend. If you find that you are no longer available to attend you MUST cancel your place (on the system if more than three days before the course) or if at short notice by emailing pg-training@nottingham.ac.uk. This will ensure that your place can be offered to another researcher on the waiting list. Failure to cancel a place results in other researchers missing out on places through the waiting list process.

It is unacceptable for researchers to just not attend when booked onto a course. Researcher Academy maintains records of those who repeatedly do not attend courses they have booked. This may affect future eligibility to book onto further Researcher Academy courses and will affect considerations for Researcher Academy funded opportunities.