Good evidence is essential to make sure our policies and law are right. The IPO's research team commissions and develops research into important IP issues.
On 13 September 2013 Ofcom hosted the joint Ofcom/Intellectual Property Office (IPO) workshop on standards for good evidence. Hosted by Charlotte Waelde (University of Exeter), the event emphasised the need...
Interested in working with the most productive Intellectual Property Office (IPO) economics and research team in the world? Come along to our research open day in London tomorrow (16 October...
...representatives of patent offices from around the world along with legal practitioners and industry Intellectual Property (IP) users. The conference presented findings from the survey of innovation and patent use...
This week the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) published patent no. GB2,500,000.
How can you use a copyright work when the rights-holder cannot be found? This is the issue with so called orphan works. Orphan works are works covered by copyright, but...
The evidence base on the impact of intellectual property is contentious with reports from different perspectives published - almost tit for tat.
WIPO reported that in 2011 global patent applications broke the two million mark. This journey is one of almost constant growth spanning more than two decades. Could such an increase herald a bright new future of global technological brilliance?
The European patent system is undergoing major reforms. These include the creation of a patent with unitary effect across Europe and a Unified Patent Court (UPC) to enforce the new patent right.
In part two of our series on the history of design rights, we look at the decision to register a design right. Registered design rights are relatively underused in the...
...forms part of a growing government IP-focused social media network which is making increasing use of popular platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The trend follows in the footsteps of well...
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