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Lough Neagh ℗ 2019 Jane Elizabeth Lambert: all rights reserved Jane Lambert If you were wondering what had happened to my blogs I am on holiday in Northern Ireland, Yesterday I took this photo from  Oxford Island , a nature reserve on the southern shore of Lough Neagh, a vast inland sea in the centre of Nothern Ireland. But I am keeping my eyes open and my wits about me so that I can report things that may be of interest to my readers such as the Catalyst Science Parks  in Belfast , Ballymena  and Derry-Londonderry . There are also a ccelerator and incubator programmes i n Nothern Ireland such as Ignite's in Belfast  as well as business angels  and private equity investors . Belfast Central Library used to be listed as a PatLib library but it is no longer on the current list  and there does not appear to be an IP clinic in the province but there are patent and trade mark attorneys who can be identified by searching the I PReg...

Author Ssolbergj Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Licence Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert Some homework for those who are coming to hear our IP attaché, Tom Duke , speak about Succeeding in China - How to mitigate IP risk in Barnsley, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London or Manchester this September. The Intellectual Property Office has produced a very helpful guide entitled  Intellectual property rights in China .   A quick read of this guide before he speaks will enable you to make the most of Mr Duke's talk, especially if you are new to the subject. Although our law differs from China's in detail the basic concepts are the same because China is a member of many of the same international agreements to which we belong. Thus patents protect new inventions. trade marks brands, copyrights literary and artistic works and so on. But there are some rights in Chima that do not exist in our law such...