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	LES B&I NewsXchange: Supplement
	The Governments Response to: The Hargreaves Review of IP and Growth

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LES B&I NewsXchange: Supplement

The Newsletter of the Licensing Executives Society Britain and Ireland

Supplement to Issue 137 July 2011

The Governments Response to: The Hargreaves Review of IP and Growth

Following Dr. Duncan Curley’s article on the Hargreaves Review in today’s NewsXchange, LES (B&I) has today received copies of the Government’s response announcing that all ten of the Recommendations have been accepted by the Government.  (The recommendations appear in full in Dr. Curley’s article.)

In addition the UK IPO (the UK Patent Office) has announced it’s International IP strategy and IP crime strategy.

Please click to view details of the Response and Strategies and a letter to Stakeholders from the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable::

Government Response to the Hargreaves Review

UK IP Crime Strategy 2011

The UK's International Strategy for Intellectual Property

Letter to stakeholders

This information can also be found at http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipresponse.

The Laws Committee will be considering the Response and the Strategies at its next meeting on 1st September.  Any comments should be sent to the Committee Chairman, Robin Nott, at laws@les-bi.org.

We wait to see how many of the proposals do actually see the light of day hereafter.

LES (B&I)’s submissions to the Hargreaves Review can be found at: http://les-bi.org/documents/HargreavesIPReviewSubmission4.3.11.pdf.

Robin Nott
Chairman, Laws Committee, LES B&I