Martin Layton Email & Phone Number

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

•Provision of 1:1 advice and in depth company support to organisations across Scotland to enable them to: identify, manage and commercially exploit their intangible assets.•Utilising skills and experience to enable companies across Scotland to positively respond to opportunities and challenges through Innovation, Value Protection and Creation.•Design and facilitation of Intellectual Assets and Intellectual Property focussed events and Workshops, including the preparation and delivery of presentations in relation to Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) and related value release opportunities.•Work in collaboration with the Enterprise and Innovation support networks to ensure that support delivered through the Intellectual Property Specialist service forms part of a comprehensive package underpinning business growth for Scottish organisations.•Scottish Enterprise Intellectual Property Specialist service liaison with the UK Intellectual Property Office; facilitating delivery of joint MOU objectives and IP Audit and IP Access Scheme support, to help underpin business growth for Scottish organisations.•Scottish Enterprise Intellectual Property Specialist service liaison with Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE) Innovation team, facilitating the delivery of in depth IP advice to HIE client businesses.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

•Provision of 1:1 advice and in depth company support to organisations across Scotland to enable them to: identify, manage and commercially exploit their intangible assets. •Design and facilitation of Intellectual Assets and Intellectual Property focussed events and Workshops, including the preparation and delivery of presentations in relation to Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) and related value release opportunities.•Work in collaboration with the Enterprise and Innovation support networks to ensure that support delivered through the Intellectual Property Specialist service forms part of a comprehensive package underpinning business growth for Scottish organisations.•Scottish Enterprise Intellectual Property Specialist service liaison with the UK Intellectual Property Office; facilitating delivery of joint MOU objectives and IP Audit Scheme support, to help underpin business growth for Scottish organisations.

Scotland

•Provision of 1:1 advice and in depth company support to organisations across Scotland to enable them to: identify, manage and commercially exploit their intangible assets. •Design and facilitation of Intellectual Assets focussed events and Workshops, including the preparation and delivery of presentations in relation to Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) and related value release opportunities.•Work in collaboration with the Enterprise and Innovation support networks to ensure that support delivered through the Intellectual Assets Specialist service forms part of a comprehensive package underpinning business growth for Scottish organisations.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

•Provision of 1:1 advice and in depth company support to organisations across Scotland to enable them to: identify, manage and commercially exploit their intangible assets.•Utilising skills and experience to enable companies across Scotland to positively respond to opportunities and challenges through Innovation, Value Protection and Creation.•Design and facilitation of Intellectual Assets and Intellectual Property focussed events and Workshops, including the preparation and delivery of presentations in relation to Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) and related value release opportunities.•Work in collaboration with the Enterprise and Innovation support networks to ensure that support delivered through the Intellectual Property Specialist service forms part of a comprehensive package underpinning business growth for Scottish organisations.•Scottish Enterprise Intellectual Property Specialist service liaison with the UK Intellectual Property Office; facilitating delivery of joint MOU objectives and IP Audit and IP Access Scheme support, to help underpin business growth for Scottish organisations.•Scottish Enterprise Intellectual Property Specialist service liaison with Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE) Innovation team, facilitating the delivery of in depth IP advice to HIE client businesses.

Scotland

•Provision of 1:1 advice and in depth company support to organisations across Scotland to enable them to: identify, manage and commercially exploit their intangible assets. •Design and facilitation of IA Centre events and Workshops, including the preparation and delivery of presentations in relation to Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) and related value release opportunities.•Work in collaboration with the Enterprise and Innovation support networks to ensure that support delivered through the Intellectual Assets Centre forms part of a comprehensive package underpinning business growth for Scottish organisations.

Glasgow, Scotland

•Management of the IA Centre’s client facing activity, providing support to organisations across Scotland.•Management of the IA Centre’s Sectoral Project Consultancy team delivering support to key industry Sectors within Scotland, including: Business and Financial Service Providers; Creative Industries and Techmedia; Energy and Renewables; Food and Drink; Manufacturing and Engineering; Medtech / Life Sciences; Public and Voluntary Sectors. •Providing one to one advice in relation to Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) to Scottish organisations by telephone and face to face client meetings.•Supporting delivery of EU funded projects, including design and delivery of consultancy training and support under the “IPeuropAware” training programme for IP Enforcement Ambassadors across Europe.•Undertaking development and delivery of in depth “full cost recovery” training programmes to broaden the Centre’s IAM support offered to Scottish organisations.

Alicante, Spain

•Providing advice on the acceptability of trade mark applications to colleagues from across the 27 EU member states (80% of 80,000 applications received per annum relate to trade marks in English.)•Deciding the acceptability of trade marks filed in English within work service.•Issuing correspondence and decisions in respect of marks identified as objectionable on Absolute Grounds.•Deciding trade mark application opposition disputes and cancellation proceedings in respect of registered trade marks. Drafting and issuing decisions in respect of opposition and cancellation proceedings.

Glasgow, Scotland

•Management of IA Centre Demand Side Project covering maternity leave of Business Services Manager, including: planning of events, management of project budgets, monitoring performance against targets and addressing shortfalls identified.•Providing one to one advice in relation to Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) to Scottish organisations by telephone and face to face client meetings.•Management of IA Centre Associates team providing one to one advice to Scottish organisations.

Newport, South Wales

•Management of trade mark examination team (16 staff). Ensuring that all individual and team targets were achieved by providing advice and guidance to team members on examination issues and identifying and addressing any training and development needs identified. •Conducting ex parte hearings with professional trade mark attorneys and / or trade mark applicants. Drafting resulting Hearing Reports and Statements of Grounds of Decision as appropriate.•UK IPO Trade Marks Directorate delegate to: International benchmarking team; CIPRO (South African Trade Marks Registry) fact finding mission and ECTA Conference.

Newport, South Wales

•Assessment of applications for restoration following non-payment of renewal fees, including assessment of whether “reasonable care” exercised on the part of the patent proprietor.•Management of administrative team responsible for reviewing renewal fee apportionment to European Patent Office (EPO) and issue of renewal fee reminder and patent cessation correspondence to patent proprietors.

Newport, South Wales

•Management of Patent Renewal process and work team, responsible for accurate recordal of Patent Office patent renewal fee income.•Liaison with customers, senior management and finance work areas to improve patent renewal practice, procedures and resolve payment queries.•Management of change: combining EP and UK Patent Renewals teams in to single Renewals work team.•Project management of Register “clean up” exercise: ensuring that contemporary computer records correctly matched preceding paper Register entries; liaising with senior management and external users to address and correct queries identified.

Newport, South Wales

•Supporting provision of public lending and reference information services within Newport and the wider Gwent area. Assisting with the maintenance of the Gwent area local history collection.•Member of the Steering Group of the National Library Campaign 1988 – 1990.

Advanced Course On Intellectual Property Management (Dl450), Intellectual Property Law & Management, Graded Result: 100% - Forwarded To Wipo For Special Recognition.

Hnc, Public Administration

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