1. Legal professional quality; 2. Ethics and privilege; 3. Systems; 4. Research and development (R&D) and technical innovation; 5. Patenting; 6. Employee inventors; 7. Unsolicited technical suggestions (UTSs); 8. Branding; 9. Other intellectual property rights; 10. Intellectual property disputes - avoidance and handling; 11. Intellectual property agreements; 12. PAEs/NPEs/patent trolls, marking trolls, and unsolicited approaches relating to intellectual property rights requesting payment (UAIPs); 13. Intellectual propertty within the company structure or groupe; 14. Educating the client; 15. The financial model; 16. Information security; 17. Business continuity planning (disaster recovery); 18. People and organisations; 19. Intellectual property policies; 20. Lobbying on intellectual property law.
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London, UK : Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), 2013.