Policy Papers
Total Documents: 10
This part of the site is up-to-date from 2004; relevant position papers prior to then are obtainable from the Secretariat.
IP Federation position on the EU Trade Secrets Directive (December 2014) Summary of IP Federation response to the public consultation on the protection of business and research know-how on 8 March 2013 Letter to Liz Coleman at the IPO, in the context of negotiations for the Rio+20 sustainable development conference in Rio de Janeiro, asking the IPO to ensure that UK and EU negotiators enter the final stages of the negotiations well-prepared and with a very clear technology-related brief Letter to the EPO asking it to reconsider its decision not to include a “clarity” tab on the proposed web page for making observations, and to amend the Guidelines to make explicit the fact that third parties may object under Art. 115 EPC to lack of clarity of the claims of European patent applications. The Overall Functioning of the Trade Mark System in Europe Transformation consultation – Potential legislative changes for IPO digital transformation – IP Federation response
The UK needs to adopt a broader text and data mining (TDM) exception to copyright infringement
The proposed supplementary unregistered design (SUD)
Trade Secrets Directive – implementation for the UK
The EU Trade Secrets Directive (December 2014)
Trade secrets consultation – protection of business and research know-how
Trade Secrets, Patents and Rio+20 Developments
Third party observations at the EPO
Trade Mark system in Europe