We are no longer accepting any entries for the Intellectual Property Magazine Awards 2011.
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Please note that deadlines have not yet been set for the 2012 IPM awards. Please check this website in the New Year for further information and updates.
Who can enter
The Intellectual Property Magazine Awards are open to any business, law firm, individual or team, operating anywhere around the world working within, or advising and supporting the intellectual property sector either in a legal or commercial capacity.
How to enter
Select the category/ies that you wish to enter, complete an entry form and prepare a word document in English explaining in 1000 words why you or your company should win an IPM Award. All entries should be emailed (in English) to gemma.healy@informa.com or posted to Informa Law & Finance, IPM Awards Entry, 1-2 Bolt Court, London, EC4A 3DQ. All entries should include an entry form, 1000 word entry submission and a maximum of one piece of supporting material.
All entries must include:
- The name of your business/firm or individual entrant as you wish to be referred to throughout the competition
- Contact details for the entrant (name, job title, company, address, email and telephone)
- An answer to each question as specified in the category criteria (under separate headings)
- Details of the key people involved
*All information above is essential
More than one category may be entered provided each entry has been specifically written to address the relevant criteria and is accompanied by a separate entry form.
Download your entry kit Download an entry formNominations
Nominations may also come from third parties (individuals or companies) who feel a particular company or person should be considered for an award. In this instance please provide contact details (name, company name, email and telephone) for the relevant company or individual and IPM will endeavour to contact them to submit an entry. IPM cannot be held responsible for any nominated company that does not supply an entry once contacted.
The Judging Process
The shortlist is prepared by a group drawn from Intellectual Property Magazine’s Editorial Board. Regardless of the number of entries in a category, the shortlist for that category will not usually exceed eight entries.
Each entry is carefully anonymised and the category shortlist is submitted to a judging group made up of appropriately experienced members of our judging panel, carefully screened for conflicts of interest. Each entry is marked against the category criteria by each judge in the group. The panel then convenes to discuss the marks and agree a winner in each category. Judging will take place in August 2011.
The shortlist of entries will be announced and published, but the identity of the winners will be revealed in the December issue of Intellectual Property Magazine.
The Chair of the Judging Panel reserves the right to cast any deciding vote should the need arise. The judges’ decision is final and neither the organisers nor the Judging panel will enter into any correspondence about the results.