Wales Enterprise Day 2025

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I discovered M-SParc (the Menai Science Park) while on holiday in Beaumaris in 2018.  I wrote about it in M-SParc - Anglesey's Science Park on 29 Aug 2018.  I got to know it better when I attended the Anglesey Business Festival later in the year.  I helped the park contribute to World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April 2019 (see Jane Lambert Celebrating World IP Day at M-SParc: Basic Tips for Startups and other Small Businesses 29 April 2019, NIPC Cymru).  The event was so successful that Emily Roberts, who was then in charge of Operations and Customer Experience at M-SParc, decided to hold a similar event on 11 November to be known as "Wales Enterprise Day."

This year's Wales Enterprise Day coincided with the World Intellectual Property Organization's worldwide celebration of examiners.  M-SParc decided to combine both celebrations with a lunchtime seminar on working with the  Intellectual Property Office (see Jane Lambert How to Apply for a UK Patent, Trade Mark or Registered Design 31 July 2025 NIPC Cymru). I set out some details of the event in Wales Enterprise Day 2025 - Working with the IPO on 16 Aug 2025 in NIPC Cymru.   I attended the event and wrote about it in Wales Enterprise Day 2025 in NIPC Cymru on 12 Nov 2025.

M-SParc recorded the seminar and has posted the video to YouTube.  There are some very useful talks by patent attorney Sean Thomas, Joe Foote of HarriFoote IP and former examiner Robin Rhys Jones.  I also contributed to the seminar.   The event was chaired by Nia Roberts and organized by Gwenllian Owen.  As inventors and their advisors are likely to benefit from the talks by Sean, Robin and possibly me, I shall insert a link to the video from the NIPC Inventors's Club resources pages.  As entrepreneurs, business owners, angels and others could benefit from Joe's talk I shall link to it from NIPC Branding.

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