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Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert On the day that my article   Patents - Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd. and others   appeared in which I discussed Mr Justice Mellor's 225-page judgment in Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd. and others   [2023] EWHC 539 (Pat ),  the Intellectual Property Office ("IPO") announced a questionnaire on standard essential patents ("SEPs") for SME small-cap and mid-cap businesses. This follows an earlier consultation on SEP licensing that the IPO launched on 7 Dec 2021.  I discussed it in  IPO Consultation on SEPs and Innovation   on 19 Dec 2021.  The IPO received 56 responses to that consultation.  The names of the respondents appear in Annex A  to a Summary of Responses to the Call for Views .  Their responses are analysed in that document.  Bearing in mind the costs of FRAND litigation and that it seems to involve only massive multinational companies in the elect

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3. 0.   Jane Lambert Yesterday the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology published its Science and Technology Framework   which its press release described as "the government’s plan to cement the UK’s place as a science and technology superpower by 2030."  The aspiration to become a science and technology superpower by 2030 first appeared in  Global Britain in a competitive age   which I reviewed in an article by the same name in IP after Brexit on 19 March 2021 and it was renewed in    UK Innovation Strategy Leading the future by creating it   which I reviewed in UK Innovation Strategy   on 12 Aug 2021. The Science and Technology Framework is a much lighter document than the UK Innovation Strategy.  It is 19 pages long including the front and back cover and a foreword by the Secretary of State , Michelle Donelan MP on pages 5 and 6.   It is structured as follows: Identifying Critical

Author Utilisateur:Ork.c h Licence CC BY-SA 2.0FR   Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert The World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO")  operates the Patent Cooperation Treaty ("PCT") , Hague Agreement  and the Madrid Protocol .  These are international agreements that facilitate applications for patent, design or trade mark registrations in multiple countries and territories from a single filing. Those agreements simplify and greatly reduce the costs of obtaining international legal protection for technology, designs and brands. On 28 Feb 2023, the WIPO published its statistics for patent , design and trade mark registrations in 2022.  There had been a 0.3% increase in international patent applications from 277,182 in 2021 to 278,100 despite the pandemic, conflict in Ukraine, fluctuating energy prices and other adverse economic conditions.  There was a much sharper increase in design registration applications from 6,714 in 2021 to 7,973 in 2022.  There was