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An economic powerhouse, by design
Making billions of pounds for the UK economy every year, the design industry is a hive of innovation. However, asks Nick Huber, is the IP system doing enough to help it realise the full value of that ....  »
Luck versus skill: The dicey history of board game IP
As the year’s biggest sales period for board games gets underway, Matt Packer explains how these colourful entertainments conceal decades of tinkering, toil and timely IP manoeuvres...  »
Clarke delays competitive tendering plan for UK legal aid
Justice secretary puts back proposals to throw legal aid provision open to industry, citing need to wait for wider reforms to ‘bed down’...  »
SRA tackles global dimensions of new-look UK legal sector
In an interview with NewLegal Review, Samantha Barrass of the Solicitors Regulation Authority talks about the group’s growing international focus...  »
PCC adds affordable claims facility to spur growth in UK enterprises
Following two official recommendations in as many years the UK Patents County Court is to hear small-claims IP cases, providing growing companies with respite from High Court costs...  »
Corporate counsel desperately seeking value
In-house lawyers fighting downturn with efforts to reduce spend on legal services and negotiate different cost models with their law firms...  »
Major WIPO report details surge in innovation industry
Organisation’s first World IP Report takes 40-year, panoramic view of an IP economy that is outpacing global GDP and driving change in poorer countries...  »
A change for the better? One year on from rule changes at the UK Patents County Court
Just 12 months after new rules were introduced in the Patents County Court, there is already compelling evidence that they have created an affordable forum for IP litigants, argues Patrick Cantrill of....  »
IP enforcement data hub called in for baggage search
A proposed database for boosting IP enforcement in Europe has been scrutinised for its potential impacts on privacy. Matt Packer listens in on the questioning...  »
Clegg backs law firms’ PRIME recruitment initiative
UK deputy prime minister makes case for improving social mobility in legal world, in the wake of a scheme by some of the country’s top law firms to broaden job opportunities...  »