To clarify the scope of this study, definitions of investment, market applications and AI applications were established to provide a rationale for sampling views across a range of relevant actors in the sector

The UK National Stem Cell Network (UKNSCN) provided the stem cell community with regular digests of both published patent applications and granted patents in the field of stem cells.This report provides an updated patent landscape overview for the period 1 November 2008 to 31 October 2011 with a...

The aim of this research was to provide an overview of existing methods used to measure infringement of intellectual property rights. The report recommends suitable methodologies, especially those capable of being adopted across different IP rights; copyright, trade marks, patents, and design right

The use of intellectual property right bundles by firms in the UK This report presents the exploratory analysis of the use of different types of IPRs as part of an intellectual property rights bundle by firms registered in the UK

The Lambert toolkit is a set of decision tools and standard agreements designed to improve the process of negotiating collaboration agreements between research establishments and business, which has been in place since 2005. The aim was to produce a compromise approach that was fair and...

This study was commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office to collect data on whether and how four copyright industries - music, film, publishing and software - have (or not) adopted private copying measures, and on whether the price of the products in the UK reflect a right to private copying

Report 2: The treatment of parodies under copyright law in seven jurisdictions The purpose of this paper is to review the legal treatment of parodies in several key countries, with a view to identifying possible regulatory options for benefiting from a parody exception to copyright infringement,...

This study aims to assess to what extent developed country technical assistance programmes are likely to have interacted with, and potentially contributed to the promotion of country-appropriate sustainable changes in intellectual property strategies and technological capacities over the period...

The purpose of this study is to:analyse the recent evolution of patent backlogs identify respective trends and drivers assess the impact that patent backlogs may have on the patent system, incentives to innovate and the economy Further, given that patent examination and grant is performed at the...

The aim is to contribute to our understanding of the role of patent thickets as a barrier to entry into new technologies for UK enterprises, in particular small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).The report consists of several parts:A review of the literature on patent thickets, including the...