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Industry committee  Thank you. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak with you today. I will speak, I think, for a little less than eight or nine minutes, simply to give you the background and key points in the review on IP issues that I conducted for the U.K. government. That review w

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Professor Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  I was advised by a panel rather than being a member of a panel. The review is under single authorship, under my name. I take responsibility for all of its conclusions. I was advised by a panel of experts who ranged from an academic based in North America to the former head of pa

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  That's a fair and accurate statement.

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  I'm not in a position to speak authoritatively about that. That's clearly a matter for ministers, and at this stage the government has not declared the precise legislative approach it intends to take. So it would be inappropriate for me to seek to guess at that. In terms of the

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  I think even if one were tempted to see this as a global beauty parade of regimes and pick the winner and seek to copy it, it would not necessarily be the route you would try to go down. It is true that there are examples, and Israel would be one, where there has been a very subs

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  Yes. There is certainly evidence that some use of patents is designed primarily not in the pursuit of invention and innovation but designed in defence of existing marketplace positions of one kind or another, some of them more distantly related to innovation and substance than ot

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  The debate in the U.K., or the practice in the U.K.... The U.K. is a very significant registration point for patents. It has, I think it would be fair to say, a well-regarded patent administration system run through the Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom. What a

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  The exchange that I proposed did not concern patents but copyright, a digital content right called the digital copyright exchange. Copyright, of course, unlike patent, is an unregistered right in Europe. The idea here is to get a better quality of data into the marketplace, esse

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  That wasn't a matter the review considered in detail. We did look at it. We published some thoughts, as it were, as a supplementary document. We published a number of supplementary documents to the review, one of which touched on those issues. Those issues are certainly very li

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  It depends on what the question is. One set of questions around universities and IP involves the relationship between the rights attached to academic published work—the copyright coverage and the nature of the copyright coverage that is involved—and the extent to which you want t

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  I mentioned that a feasibility study is under way to determine the feasibility of the idea. At the halfway stage of that exercise, the idea received strong support in a piece of work led by an independent outsider that included people from all the relevant sectors of the economy.

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  I would say that the most important finding was that for a variety of reasons, a number of decisions have been taken in recent years that fly in the face of the economic evidence to hand. One of those sets of issues—the most obvious set of issues of that kind—would be the frequen

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  Well, I've given you the example in the previous answer, the best example or most telling example, which is the extension of copyright duration to a point where it now can exceed a hundred years. It takes us into the realm where it's very difficult to understand what economic inc

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  Yes, that's an argument, you may think an overly optimistic one, that international negotiation might maximize its chance of succeeding in its objectives if the positions taken are based on evidence on which there might be some agreement around what the evidence points to. That's

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves

Industry committee  An effective IP regime, including an effective copyright regime, would be one in which the level of abuse or infringement of that regime was relatively stable, relatively manageable, not generating a sense of being out of control. Although my review had quite a lot to say about t

June 12th, 2012Committee meeting

Prof. Ian Hargreaves