- How IP is licensed and exchanged
(a) How easy is it to negotiate licences to use others’ IP for commercial or non-profit purposes?
(b) What mechanisms do you use for finding potential licensing partners?
(c) How easy is it to use others’ IP for research purposes? Have you experienced difficulty around research exemptions?
(d) Are there specific barriers to licensing in the main forms of IP currently used: patents, copyright, trade marks, and designs?
(e) Are there barriers to licensing IP on grounds of cost? What drives these costs?
(f) Are there specific barriers to licensing IP in your sector?
(g) Does your organisation use methods to facilitate exchange of IP – such as cross- licensing or pooling IP rights with other firms or organisations?
(h) Are there specific barriers to licensing IP rights for small businesses or individuals – for example barriers to entry to patent pools?
(i) Are there barriers to trade and exchange of IP internationally?
(j) Does your organisation consider renewing patents using “licence of right” provisions in patent law (which entitle any person to a licence under your patent and reduce your renewal fees by half)?
(k) What could be done to improve “licence of right” provisions and business awareness of them?
(l) Do you have any experience of the compulsory licence provisions within current patent law? Are they effective? How could they be improved?
Gowers Review of Intellectual PropertyAt the Enterprise Conference on 2 December 2005, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that, as part of the Pre-Budget Report 2005 package, he was asking Andrew Gowers to lead an Independent Review to examine the UK's intellectual property framework. The Open Rights Group has been formally invited to participate. We are currently drafting our submission and wish to include your thoughts and opinions. We have reproduced the Call for Evidence below and invite you to contribute - just hit 'respond' next to the paragraph you wish to comment on. Many of the questions asked by Andrew Gowers in this review are very focused, but you should feel free to comment on the issues and the wider implications rather than feel obliged to provide specific answers. If you want to talk about issues not raised by this call for evidence, please do - just leave your comments on the Introduction. |
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