Intellectual property for community organisations

Intellectual Property for community organisations - protecting your organisation's name, logo, website and materials

Your organisation’s intellectual property is one of its most valuable assets, but one that many organisations don’t fully understand.  This informative seminar, presented by experienced IP lawyers, will provide an overview of intellectual property law for community groups, including:

  • What is intellectual property and why should we be concerned?
  • How can we protect our intellectual property?
  • How can we make sure that we have the intellectual property rights we need?
  • We have volunteers developing our website – what do we need to know?

Come along to this seminar and have all your burning IP related questions answered!

This seminar is generously hosted by Minter Ellison Lawyers and presented by Nicole Reid and Oliver Howard from their intellectual property team.

Nicole Reid is a senior associate in the commercial intellectual property team at Minter Ellison.  She advises a range of both public and private sector organisations on a range of intellectual property issues, including licensing and collaboration arrangements and organisations' rights to use various materials protected by intellectual property rights. She is also one of the co-ordinators of Minter Ellison's PILCH homeless persons' legal clinic team.

Oliver Howard is a lawyer at Minter Ellison with experience and expertise in commercial intellectual property matters, including associated misleading or deceptive conduct issues.  Oliver advises a range of clients on both 'front-end' and 'back-end' intellectual property issues, including agreements dealing with intellectual property and trade mark disputes.  Oliver is also an active participant in Minter Ellison's PILCH homeless persons' legal clinic team.

Seminar details are as follows:

Date: Wednesday 20 March 2025

Time: 9.30 - 12.00 (registrations open 09:15am)

Venue:
Minter Ellison Lawyers
Level 16
Rialto Towers
525 Collins Street
Melbourne 

Registration fee: 
$50 per person for small organisations (up to 10 EFT employees)
$100 per person for large organisations (over 10 EFT employees).

Morning tea provided.

 

PilchConnect is a not-for-proft organisation established by PILCH (a Victorian community legal centre) to provide free and low-cost legal assistance to not-for-profit community organisations. The fees charged for the not-for-profit seminar series simply cover the costs of running training.

PilchConnect strives to make our seminars accessible to small-medium NFPs, and we appreciate that many organisations have limited resources and rely heavily on the work of volunteers. We considered that a tiered fee structure was fairer to both smaller and large organisations. Most of the organisations that attend PilchConnect seminars will fall into the ‘small' organisation category - for both small and larger organisations we consider that the fees represent excellent value for professional legal information training.

As always we appreciate your feedback. PilchConnect can be contacted by - Email Icon email connect@pilch.org.au or call us on - Phone Icon 03 8636 4400

How to register

Our preferred method of registration is with payment made by credit card. Please click here to enrol and make payment with credit card using the TryBooking secure website. 

To make payment by cheque please notify Benjamin by e-mail connect@pilch.org.au and make the cheque out to-

Public Interest Law Clearing House

Payment is-
$50 per person for small organisations (up to 10 EFT employees)
$100 per person for large organisations (over 10 EFT employees)

Please post the cheque to-
Benjamin Golby
PILCH
PO Box 16013
Collins Street West
Melbourne VIC 3000

Please include with the cheque the following details:

  • The training session you are making enrolment in 
  • The name of the person/s attending and their title/s 
  • The name of your organisation 
  • Your contact details 
  • Any dietary or special requirements for those who are attending and any particular questions they may have for the presenters 

If you are unable to make payment by credit card or cheque please contact Benjamin by 

- Email Icon email connect@pilch.org.au