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The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills will have its administration budget cut by 25 per cent. In view of the Government’s desire to promote science and innovation at both the corporate and personal level it is crucial that these cost savings do not inhibit intellectual property development.
Costs and time involved in securing protection can still inhibit invention and innovation especially for smaller companies and the taxation of IP and R&D should allow for the time and costs taken to create new IP.
There should also be greater investment in the education of small business about how to identify, protect and exploit the intellectual property which the Government is encouraging.
The UK IPO which is part of the BIS should be properly funded and new ways of expediting applications for registration of rights both in the UK and Europe should be explored.
As has been widely reported this week, some 3,000 UK workers are taking part in a six month trial to assess the viability of a four-day working week without any reduction in their normal pay.
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In Nissan v Passi, the High Court recently considered the issue of an employee retaining confidential documents belonging to his former employer in the context of the employer’s application for an injunction seeking the return of such documents from the employee.
The UK government is considering extending this power to depart from retained EU case law to additional lower courts and tribunals, namely the Court of Appeal in England and Wales and the High Court of Justice in England and Wales and their equivalents.
Lord Justice Arnold has applied the guidance of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to the evidence before him, in the long standing trade mark dispute between Sky and Skykick.
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