NIPC Law

Photo Michael Reeve Creative Commons Licence Jane Lambert On 16 June 2020 the Intellectual Property Office updated its Guidance on IP crime and enforcement for business .  Most of the Guidance in three attachments: IP crime and enforcement for businesses   The UK UP Crime Group , and  Record of damages awarded in IPEC SCT cases 1 April 2018 - 31 March 2019 "IPEC SCT" stands for "Intellectual Property Enterprise Court Small Claims Track. This is a tribunal for IP claims under £10,000 other than those involving patents, registered and registered Community designs, plant varieties and semiconductor topographies.   I have discussed this jurisdiction in Small IP Claims   and the articles linked to that page. The IP crime and enforcement for businesses attachment contains two videos.  One is entitled I P Rights Infringement Overview  and the other is How do I avoid infringing IP rights at work?    There are summa...

One of the recommendations of the late lamented DTI's Innovation Report of 2003 was to develop a new strategy for dealing with IP Crime. Accordingly the UK- IPO set up set up a specialist IP Crime Group in 2004 to: - Carry out a National IP Crime Strategy and publish an Annual Enforcement Report - Bring together government policy-makers, industry and enforcers to create a co-ordinated approach to IP enforcement - Establish an accurate measurement of IP crime within the UK - Identify areas of threat and specific harm - Support training for enforcement officers and spread best practice - Build a more consistent approach to enforcement of IP crime and - Raise consumer awareness. The latest annual report has now been published and it makes pretty depressing reading. Apparently The true measure of the level of IP crime within the UK or for that matter the whole of the OECD is unknown but believed to be "significant". The Group makes the following recommendations: ...