Uk Authorities Slammed For Failure To Protect Smes

In a letter to The Times legal supplement today 268 signatories -- including clockwork radio inventor Trevor Bayliss OBE -- pillory the U.K. government’s mental attitude towards patent enforcement, specially amongst consider to the plight of SMEs (small together with medium-sized enterprises). “If Government ready out to blueprint a patent organisation that failed to run across the needs of SME inventors together with discouraged innovation, hence the 1 inwards identify would locomote roughly it”, they complain. In identify of the electrical flow organisation they advocate compulsory arbitration of patent disputes too every bit the institution of a patent defence strength matrimony and the introduction of additional damages for infringement. “It is high fourth dimension that the Government delivered on its hope to back upward Britain’s innovative businesses together with individuals” past times introducing the changes outlined inwards their letter.

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