2009
Challenges Affecting the Use and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
Major issues and challenges in the field of enforcement and litigation are outlined and a summary of important theoretical and empirical results is given. Prepared for the UK IP Ministerial Forum on the Economic Value of IP, 10 June 2009.
Commissioned
by: IPO; SABIP
Date
published: May 2009
Author(s): Dietmar Harhoff
Copycats? Digital Consumers in the Online Age
An evaluation of web-based digital consumer behaviour and attitudes and their implications for intellectual property policy. Commissioned by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy, it aims to provide a robust evidence base to help guide policy makers in this strategic area.
Commissioned
by: SABIP
Date published: May 2009
Author(s): Robin Hunt, Peter Williams, Ian Rowlands and David Nicholas (CIBER team, University College London).
The Economic Value of Intellectual Property: An Agenda for Policy-Relevant Research
Report of proceedings of June 2009 Forum on the Economic Value of IP: Use and value of IP rights; challenges affecting IP rights; IP system and its role in innovation and economic performance; policy implications and further research.
Date published: November 2009
Author(s): IPO, SABIP
The Economic Value of Intellectual Property: Research Agenda and Plan of Action
This report summarises the findings from the Forum on the Economic Value of IP and provides a basis for driving forward the work programme through building partnerships and strengthening networks.
Date published: November 2009
Author(s): IPO, SABIP
Future Copyright Development
This project engaged rights holders and users in a review of the copyright system to help set an agenda for future copyright policy.
Commissioned by: IPO, COI
Date
published: May 2009
Author(s): BMRB Social Research
Intellectual Property and Developing Countries - A Review of the Literature
This literature review supports the UK IPO and DfID in assessing the impact of IPRs in developing countries, in the context of the WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the development of TRIPS-plus standards.
Commissioned
by: DflD,
IPO
Date published: December 2009
Author(s): RAND Europe
The Intellectual Property Rights System and its role in Innovation and Economic Performance
Presented at the UK Ministerial Forum on the Economic Value of IP, 10 June 2009. A review of arguments for and against intellectual property rights as a spur to innovation.
Commissioned
by: IPO, SABIP
Date published: 2009
Author(s): Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School and National Bureau of Economics Research).
IP Enforcement in the UK and Beyond: A Literature Review
The focus of this review is the literature on civil enforcement of IP and the behaviour of firms in using and enforcing IP rights.
Commissioned by: SABIP
Date
published: May 2009
Author(s): Ms Kimberlee Weatherall (University of Queensland), Associate Professor Elizabeth Webster (University of Melbourne and IPRIA), Professor Lionel Bently (University of Cambridge).
Proposed Changes to Exemptions from Public Performance Rights in Sound Recordings and in Performers' Rights: Amending the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988
This report is concerned primarily with the exemptions that charities and other not-for-profit organisations enjoy in relation to paying royalties for the use of copyright broadcast and recorded music. Changes to current arrangements are being considered.
Commissioned
by: IPO
Date published: June 2009
Author(s): Europe Economics
Strategic Priorities For Copyright
Background on the copyright system and identification of areas of strategic importance in the field of copyright, as identified by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy.
Date published: March 2009
Author(s): SABIP
Submission to Lord Justice Jackson: Annex 1 Copyright and Design Rights Survey
Following a submission by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP) to Lord Justice Jackson's Review of Civil Litigation Costs, SABIP commissioned three surveys to examine the evidence on a number of selected issues related to the IP enforcement system in the UK.
Date published: October 2009
Author(s): SABIP
Submission to Lord Justice Jackson: Annex 2 Patent Survey
Following a submission by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP) to Lord Justice Jackson's Review of Civil Litigation Costs, SABIP commissioned three surveys to examine the evidence on a number of selected issues related to the IP enforcement system in the UK.
Date published: October 2009
Author(s): SABIP
Submission to Lord Justice Jackson: Annex 3 Trade Marks Survey
Following a submission by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP) to Lord Justice Jackson's Review of Civil Litigation Costs, SABIP commissioned three surveys to examine the evidence on a number of selected issues related to the IP enforcement system in the UK.
Date published: October 2009
Author(s): SABIP
Submission to Lord Justice Jackson, 30 October 2009
Following a submission by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP) to Lord Justice Jackson's Review of Civil Litigation Costs, SABIP commissioned three surveys to examine the evidence on a number of selected issues related to the IP enforcement system in the UK.
Date published: October 2009
Author(s): SABIP
The Use and Value of Patent Rights
Prepared for the UK IP Ministerial Forum on the Economic Value of IP, 10 June 2009. This paper considers how firms use patents and the value of patents.
Commissioned by: IPO,
SABIP
Date published: June 2009
Author(s): Bronwyn H. Hall
© The Way Ahead: A Strategy for Copyright in the Digital Age
This work looks ahead to how copyright can tackle the challenges of the digital age, drawing on previous work including Digital Britain and the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, on international perspectives and views from stakeholders.
Date published: October 2009
Author(s): BIS, IPO