UK Consultation on the Patent Office Strategy for Supporting Innovation.
Yet another public consultation has been launched by the UK Patent Office. It has the title "Consultation on the Patent Office strategy for supporting innovation" and is available here:
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Introduction
The Patent Office has been considering how it can deploy its considerable knowledge, resources and expertise to support innovation in the UK beyond our existing support activities and core statutory functions of granting IP rights, serving as a tribunal and providing advice on IP policy to Ministers. To this end, we have prepared a strategy for supporting innovation which is the subject of this consultation. Annex 1 describes how the Office intends contributing to the Government's innovation support agenda by building on its existing support activities and pursuing new initiatives.
Appended to the strategy is a wide ranging action programme which constitutes a menu from which activities will be pursued when resources permit. The Office will not necessarily lead on all the activities. Where we propose working in partnership with other organisations our aim is to establish how best we can engage with them in support of joint objectives. Priority will be given to actions which offer the greatest benefit in respect to innovation.
An independent review of the intellectual property rights in the UK is currently being undertaken by Andrew Gowers who has been appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to lead the review and report in Autumn this year. See the Gowers Review website off site link for more information. [...]"
The UK Patent Office says that it is committed to supporting innovation in the UK. One of its 10 Year Goals is said "To be a centre of excellence supporting innovation and creativity, known worldwide for our knowledge-based services and policy making". They want to help creating the conditions for business success and helping the UK respond to the challenges of globalisation.
The strategy the UK Patent Office is proposing has six objectives, namely:
Ensuring that business understand how best to use IPR to lever commercial success from their creativity.
Ensuring that research and academic bodies understand how best to use IPR to lever success from their creativity.
Delivering a high quality rights services in a modern e-environment.
Developing and offering commercial services which use the expertise of the Office to assist business in decision making.
Ensuring that rights can be enforced in a balanced and easily accessible manner.
Developing the framework of domestic and international IP law and policy to meet the needs of a modern knowledge based competitive economy.
The UK Patent Office wants to ensure that their strategy for supporting innovation, particularly the programme of activities they have identified, is appropriately focused to make the most effective and efficient use of the Office's expertise and resources. They are also keen that their strategy complements rather than duplicates or cuts across innovation support activities being carried out by others. Above all they want to ensure that the strategy will deliver maximum benefits to UK business. This consultation is, in their view, intended to give all interested parties the opportunity to help fashion the strategy so that it achieves these objectives. No foreign, international or EU perspective appears to be mentioned in their consultation paper.
Everyone is welcome to comment on the strategy. A consultation response form is available at Annex 3 which a contributor may wish to use to reply. Responses should be sent by post, fax or e-mail by August 21, 2006.
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Dipl.-Phys. Axel H Horns is Patentanwalt (German Patent Attorney),
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