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WEDNESDAY, 9 JANUARY 2013
UK design law reform: what you think ...
This blogger has just received the following email from the UK Intellectual Property Office's Designs Review Team:
The summary is some 32 sides long, but take a look before you print it out: four pages are either blank or will waste your colour cartridge for no good reason and there's loads of white space in a document which, it might be felt, could have been shorter. Annex A (the list of respondents) reads like this:
Tags: summary of responses, UK designs legal review,
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UK design law reform: what you think ...
This blogger has just received the following email from the UK Intellectual Property Office's Designs Review Team:
The link above is to the IPO's Hargreaves Implementation: Designs page -- but if you've been there and done that, you can cut to the chase and read the new summary at http://www.ipo.gov.uk/response-2012-designs-summary.pdf.Today the Government published a summary of responses received during its Consultation on the Reform of the UK Designs Legal Framework. The summary can be found at http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/hargreaves/hargreaves-designs.htm.This document is a summary of what respondents to the consultation have said on each of the proposals. It is a purely factual document and does not include any announcements or policy decisions.Submitted responses, some of which have been redacted to remove personal data, have also been published.
The summary is some 32 sides long, but take a look before you print it out: four pages are either blank or will waste your colour cartridge for no good reason and there's loads of white space in a document which, it might be felt, could have been shorter. Annex A (the list of respondents) reads like this:
Alliance For Intellectual PropertyRespondents' suggestions are made at paras 137 to 139. Enjoy! Posted by: Blog Administrator @ 12.36
Anti Copying In Design
Black + Blum
British Brands Group
British Furniture Confederation
Burgon & Ball
Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
City of London Law Society
Clark, Simon
Colman+Smart
Creative Barcode
Creative Designer, a response from
Design Council
Devon County Council Trading Standards Service
Devonshire Pine Ltd
Dickson Poon School of Law
Dyson Ltd
European Communities Trade Mark Association
Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys
French Solutions Ltd
Gallafents LLP
Harker, Angela
Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys
Intellectual Property Bar Association
Intellectual Property Lawyers’ Association
IP Federation
Jan Constantine Ltd
Kitchin LJ, Floyd J, Arnold J and HHJ Birss QC
Licensing Executives Society
Lucasfilm Ltd
MARQUES
Ministry of Defence
Morgan Contract Furniture Ltd
Motion Picture Association
Mucci, Peter
North East Trading Standards Association
Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards in Scotland
Unilever N.V. and Unilever Plc
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