{"id":14516,"date":"2016-10-03T15:17:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T15:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2016-10-03T15:17:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T15:17:55","slug":"my-visit-to-the-european-union-intellectual-property-office-euipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/10\/03\/my-visit-to-the-european-union-intellectual-property-office-euipo\/","title":{"rendered":"My visit to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"Macdonald<\/a>As a member of the Postgraduate Development Award (PGDA), I received an email about\u00a0a Santander\u00a0competition that required students to write\u00a0a proposal in line with their field of study and only\u00a0ten would be selected and sponsored. There were countries and institutions listed as partners of Santander and with my home country of\u00a0Spain listed and my little knowledge of the EUIPO, I structured my proposal\u00a0to meet\u00a0the criteria.<\/p>\n

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\"Macdonald<\/a>I applied for the competition through the Graduate School and\u00a0they were helpful. I noticed after their advice that my proposal was good but could be better, especially as there would be a panel whose duty would be to look for the best.\u00a0I went back to my proposal\u00a0and, with the support\u00a0of my tutor, I submitted it. I was nervous but kept my fingers crossed and one afternoon I received an email saying I\u00a0had been chosen as\u00a0one of the\u00a0ten and that there were a lot of other very good proposals. I was overwhelmed with joy. The lesson here is it’s ok to be good but you can be better. Why settle for a merit when you can reach for a distinction or a first? I have resolved to always give my best and pursue the best possible.<\/p>\n

I have now travelled to Spain and visited the Intellectual Property Office in Alicante. The exposure and research from this project has tremendously improved my confidence as an Intellectual Property law practitioner and empowered me with more knowledge about the subject matter. I had the experience of travelling to another country, gained organisational skills from\u00a0the administrative procedures and protocols required\u00a0to travel as an official BU student. It was an experience which gave me a clear understanding of how leading and successful organisations are run with transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n

My communication skills improved at the EUIPO\u00a0foreign office and my networking skills were also enhanced in the process. I now have contacts\u00a0should the professional need arise, and advisory experience to render to future clients in my professional practice of Intellectual property law.<\/p>\n

The fear of doubting the outcome of something I have not attempted\u00a0has certainly been conquered\u00a0as part of this process.<\/p>\n

Macdonald Amaran
\nLLM Intellectual Property\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a member of the Postgraduate Development Award (PGDA), I received an email about\u00a0a Santander\u00a0competition that required students to write\u00a0a proposal in line with their field of study and only\u00a0ten would be selected and sponsored. There were countries and institutions listed as partners of Santander and with my home country of\u00a0Spain listed and my little… Read more » about My visit to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1663],"tags":[1953,2186,800],"class_list":["post-14516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-postgraduate","tag-intellectual-property","tag-postgraduate-study","tag-travel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}