MDDA
Title: Legal Workshop – IP, SLAS and Contacts
Location: MadLab
Description: How to protect your IP and use Service Level Agreements and contracts to ensure that you are paid for services that you provide to your clients
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-01-27
End Time: 18:30
These workshops are for micro and small Digital Design, Creative Media and ICT businesses to explore the importance of protecting your intellectual property (if any) whilst ensuring that services that you offer to your clients are as per contracts by using SLA’s to define deliverables.
The workshops will look at the different issues that may arise out of a contract with a client, and how best to protect your business and any IP that may arise out of it, thereby removing any misunderstandings that could lead to costly litigation.
Event Outline:
4.00pm to 4.15pm : Delegate Registration
4.15pm to 5.00pm: Introduction
Protecting Your Business – Susan Hall † (Partner: Cobbetts LLP)
Avoid getting there! (Looking at stages and actions available to protect your business by avoiding putting your business in the position in the first place
† Susan has been named by “In Brief” magazine as one of the country’s top IT lawyers and has a background of 20 years legal practice in IT and IP. She regularly lectures nationally and internationally and has been called on for expert comments by, among others, Channel M Television, the BBC, The Spectator, The Guardian and Legal Week. She has particular expertise in working in an advisory capacity with a wide range of owner managed businesses, specifically in the design/IP sector of the market and high-tech start ups.
5.00pm to 5.45pm : Parallel Workshops – each block of 10 delegates rotate
5.45pm to 6.30pm : Workshop 1: Intellectual Property (IP) Workshop 2: SLAs and Contracts
This event is supported by the 