On 14th May 2026, CIPPM members came together to deliver a half day session on intellectual property (IP) for businesses and business students.<\/p>\n
The session was part of Bournemouth University’s (BU) Inclusive Entrepreneurship Series<\/a>,\u00a0organised by Dr Sukanya Ayatakshi-Endow<\/a> of the BU Business School.<\/p>\n Prof. Dinusha Mendis<\/a> opened the session with an introduction to IP and its value for businesses. Alessandra Russell<\/a> then gave an insight into cost reduction through taxing IP before Dr Suelen Carls<\/a> outlined how businesses can engage with innovation and value creation through patents whilst Dr Lingling Wei<\/a> highlighted how businesses can protect their reputation, image and brand through trade marks. Dr Benjamin White<\/a> took the participants through a journey on copyright and licensing, focusing particularly on the creative side of businesses.<\/p>\n The session concluded with an interactive, fun session of ‘Business Bingo’ hosted by Prof. Dinusha Mendis and Dr. Dukki Hong<\/a>.<\/p>\n The IP for Business event kick starts a series which will see similar events being hosted by CIPPM – watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 14th May 2026, CIPPM members came together to deliver a half day session on intellectual property (IP) for businesses and business students. The session was part of Bournemouth University’s (BU) Inclusive Entrepreneurship Series,\u00a0organised by Dr Sukanya Ayatakshi-Endow of the BU Business School. Prof. Dinusha Mendis opened the session with an introduction to IP and… Read more » about CIPPM hosts IP for Business event<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":8480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-8479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-focus-areas","category-ip-enterprise","tag-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8484,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479\/revisions\/8484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}