As part of the IPReg Education Review, we will be launching a Call for Evidence and Feedback in the first week of February.
The Call will play a central role in shaping the Review ahead of consultation on proposals later this year.
The Call is central to the Review. The work is taking a ‘fundamentals approach’ to explore and understand changes in trade mark attorney and patent attorney practice and how these need to be reflected in contemporary ‘day-one’ capability requirements to practise each profession.
Given the breadth of the Review, input from across the sector is essential.
What the Call will cover
The Call will be structured around four overlapping themes:
- Changing practice needs within the patent and trade mark attorney professions
- The professions’ learning and development cultures
- Appropriate ways to integrate professional learning and development, work-based experience, and assessment within qualification routes
- How entry to the professions can be widened while ensuring that high professional standards are upheld.
In particular, we are keen to understand how ‘day-one’ capability requirements in each profession are changing, including in the context of:
- Consumer, employer and practice needs
- How members of each profession contribute to legal services and multi-disciplinary teamworking
- The potential that some capabilities may be becoming less important within current practice
- Capability areas that may be best developed after registration (e.g. in line with individual attorneys’ scope of practice and role, area of specialty and practice environment).
The Call will also explore professionalism and professional ethics, as well as the impacts of generative AI and LawTech on education, training, practice, and workforce needs.
How to get involved
The Call will open in the first week of February and run to the end of April. This page will be updated when the Call goes live to provide details of how to submit evidence and feedback.
If you would like to be notified when the Call is live, please contact us at edreview@ipreg.org.uk.