Protecting Ideas & Partnerships through Intellectual Property

Tuesday 30 June 2026

13:30pm - 15:00pm

Online event

Focused online session for the businesses, we’ll explore how to protect ideas, collaborate safely and unlock new revenue streams.

CreaTech Frontiers: Protecting Ideas, Partnerships & Creative Value through Intellectual Property (IP)

Ideas move fast but Intellectual Property (IP) Law moves strategically. In this focused online session for the businesses, we’ll explore how to protect ideas, collaborate safely and unlock new revenue streams through smart Intellectual Property (IP) decisions.

Led by Des Burley, IP and Commercial Law specialist at Burley Law, this session breaks down the legal essentials every creative founder and innovator needs to understand without the jargon.

Whether you’re building a brand, building new services, developing digital products or collaborating across disciplines, this session will help you make informed decisions about what to protect, when to act and how to turn IP into value.

What You’ll Learn

In this practical, insight-driven online workshop, we’ll cover:

• What IP can actually protect in creative and tech-driven industries
• What’s worth protecting (and what isn’t) to avoid costly over-protection
• Timing your IP decisions and why acting too late is one of the most common and costly mistakes
• Collaboration risks around ownership, attribution and protecting ideas when working with others
• Intro to licensing models and how IP can be structured to generate revenue

Why This Matters for CreaTech Founders

In creative tech, value is often intangible ideas, designs, processes, content and software. But without the right protection and structure that value can be lost, disputed, or under-monetised.

This session is designed to help you:

• Reduce legal and commercial risk
• Build stronger partnerships
• Understand ownership before it becomes a problem
• Turn creative outputs into scalable revenue streams

Who Should Attend

• Creative founders and startups
• Members of the CreaTech Frontiers programme
• Digital and CreaTech entrepreneurs
• Product designers, developers and content creators
• Anyone working in collaborative innovation environments

 

What is CreaTech Frontiers?

CreaTech Frontiers is a 5-year £7.2 million project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) establishing a West Midlands CreaTech ecosystem by funding collaborative R&D, supporting business innovation and developing skills and talent. Led by Birmingham City University with Coventry University, the University of Birmingham, The University of Warwick, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Digital Catapult, providing access to a network of four complementary, interconnected R&D labs, expert academic partners and a network of industry partners.

More details: https://createchfrontiers.com/

 

Photography & Filming Notice

This event will be filmed and photographed. Footage may be used in post-event materials, highlights, and social media. If you prefer not to appear on camera, please let a member of the team know on arrival.