Trade Marks and Indigenous Organisations

Trade Marks and Indigenous Organisations is a professional development workshop designed to inform and guide Indigenous businesses and organisations with trade marks.

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Do you need help with:

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• Understanding the benefits of trade marks?

• Registering your trade mark?

• Understanding the issues with trade marks and Indigenous culture (languages, art, knowledge)?

• Looking after your trade mark?

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We have the answers!

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The Trade Marks and Indigenous Organisations workshop will cover:

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• What is a trade mark

• How to register a trade mark

• Selecting classes and descriptions

• Criteria for registration

• Overcoming grounds for rejection

• Opposition of a trade mark

• Looking after your trade mark

• Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and trade marks

• Case studies - learn from the experiences of others

• Q&A session

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This workshop (2 hours) can be delivered in person or online via Zoom

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Your workshop presenter will be Charisma Cubillo, Solicitor at Terri Janke and Company, a legal firm known for innovating pathways between the non-Indigenous business sector and Indigenous people in business, as well as leading in the area of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP).

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Charisma Cubillo is a Larrakia woman, born in Sydney with family in the Northern Territory. She has expertise in intellectual property and public speaking. Some of her recent matters include copyright and trade mark assignment, drafting licensing agreements (advice, registration), drafting non-disclosure agreements, drafting Reconciliation Action Plans (RAPs) and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) guidelines and checklists.

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For more information email tjc@terrijanke.com.au or call +61 2 9693 2577

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