The attached Brexit note was sent on 22 December 2017 by the Law Society, the representative body for solicitors in England and Wales, to UK ministers and officials, including the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU).
The note provides a short list of the biggest areas where UK government action is necessary to ensure continuity and certainty of IP law and to prevent disruption both to undertakings which use IP services and IP service providers. Key recommendations are made in the following areas:
- Continuation of EU-derived IP rights.
- Unitary Patent / Unified Patent Court Agreement.
- Exhaustion of rights.
- Rights of representation.
- Mutual recognition of judgments.
The note has been written or supported by the following office-holders of organisations that represent the main UK IP professions, including IP solicitors, IP barristers, chartered patent attorneys, and chartered trade mark attorneys:
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Name |
Office held |
Organisation represents |
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Mark Anderson |
Chairman, IP Law Committee, Law Society of England and Wales |
IP solicitors, both in private practice and in-house |
|
Daniel Alexander QC |
Chairman, Intellectual Property Bar Association |
IP barristers |
|
Stephen Jones |
President, Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys |
Chartered patent attorneys, both in private practice and in-house |
|
Kate O’Rourke |
President, Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys |
Chartered trade mark attorneys, in private practice and in-house |
|
James Horgan |
President, IP Federation |
UK IP intensive industry |
