Can you help?

Published: 2 July 2008
By: Sally Young

The Institute is looking for volunteers to join the ‘Faculty’ of lecturers on the CIPA Certificate in Patent Administration course. The course is extremely popular with firms and industrial departments up and down the country, providing a firm grounding in formalities work and a recognized qualification for valued administrators. But it does depend on the goodwill of many members to deliver the lectures.

While most of the lecturers are patent attorneys, some of the modules can equally well be delivered by a senior administrator and one or two by other professionals – for example the accounts module is suited to delivery by an accountant working in a firm of patent attorneys.

Each module is carefully structured and comprehensive notes are provided. As a lecturer, you would be asked to teach one module (or more, if you can) using the course notes as a basis from which to develop a presentation either in your own style or using the existing PowerPoint files which we have for many of the modules.

The main sessions are run in London, on Thursdays, from late September through to the following April. Each module is delivered to two separate cohorts of students, with one session running from 11.00 am to 1.00 pm and a second from 3.00 to 5.00 pm. If demand warrants it, we may also run sessions in other centres - Leeds and Birmingham are distinct possibilities this year.

If you think you might be able to help, please contact the course administrator, Sally Young at CIPA, for more information. Telephone 020 7440 9365. Email sally.young@cipa.org.uk.