Intellectual Property Training Courses

A series of training courses has been designed by the IPO and Alliance for IP to help people develop an understanding of various aspects of Intellectual Property: copyright, trade mark and design issues, the role of the Intellectual Property Office, and IP crime.

The courses are designed to assist those preparing to take the Diploma in Consumer Affairs and Trading Standards IP examination in November each year but each individual training day can be booked as a standalone course.

There are four separate training days:

1 An Introduction to IP

2. Copyright
3. Registered Designs and Design Rights
4. Trade Marks and the Criminal Law

Full course details are available to download here www.realdealmarkets.co.uk

For further information or enrolment on the courses, please contact the training co-ordinator: Rebecca Mahoney

e-mail: allianceiptraining@gmail.comor phone: 07805 924 409

Click here for a round-up of recent prosecutions by Trading Standards services across the country . . . Continue reading →

As part of its commitment to the Real Deal charter, Wisbech Town Council is working with Trading Standards officers at Cambridgeshire County Council to ensure fake goods and other illicit items are not sold on the market. Continue reading →

Fenland District Council, which operates the local market in March, is the latest to introduce the Real Deal Charter, confirming the council’s commitment to safe, fair, fake-free trading.

The council and market management have worked with trading standards officers at Cambridgeshire County Council who are committed to rolling out the Real Deal charter across all the council’s markets. March is now the fifth market in the county to adopt the Charter.

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Click here for a round-up of recent prosecutions by Trading Standards services across the country. Continue reading →

Pictured are the Mayor of Wokingham Town Council, Martin Bishop, and his wife Mayoress Yvonne Bishop, with market trader Kathy Osbourne from Shedkraft, Senior Trading Standards Officer Phil Shepherd and Rob Vincent, Building & Grounds Officer and Market Superintendent.

The Mayor of Wokingham joined with market personnel, traders and trading standards to celebrate Wokingham Market joining the Real Deal scheme. The market is the first in the area to sign the Real Deal Charter with Wokingham and West Berkshire Trading Standards Service. Continue reading →

It’s all smiles in Recar as the market operator, Billy Adams, signs the Real Deal Charter with Councillor Irene Curr.

It’s all smiles in Recar as the market operator, Billy Adams, signs the Real Deal Charter with Councillor Irene Curr. Continue reading →

Stallholders in Kingston’s Ancient Market are signing up to a national scheme to promote fair and transparent trading.

The ‘Real Deal’ charter helps to ensure sellers operate fairly and minimises the risk of fake goods or other unfair or illegal trading practices, protecting consumers and helping traders to meet their responsibilities. Continue reading →

A weekly Cleethorpes car boot sale is the latest recruit to North East Lincolnshire Council Trading Standards team’s Real Deal scheme.

The scheme was launched three years ago in a bid to stamp out the illegal trade in counterfeit goods and to ensure businesses are fully compliant with the relevant laws. Continue reading →

North Ayrshire Council Leader Willie Gibson, right, signs the Real Deal Charter at Saltcoats market with Lesley Maby of Spook Erection and Scott McKenzie of Trading Standards.

North Ayrshire Council has teamed up with the operators of Saltcoats Market to make sure the public get the ‘Real Deal’ when it comes to bagging a bargain.

The ‘Real Deal’ initiative is a national campaign aimed at signing up market operators to the National Markets’ Charter, an agreement which sets out safeguards and standards for stallholders and customers. Continue reading →