The last few years the UK has been funding a number of reviews of the UP IP system. First Gowers then Hargreaves. Now they are doing it once again, but at the meta level. The All-Party Parliamentary Intellectual Property Group in the United Kingdom is now researching the role of Government in developing IP.
The Group intends to look at a range of issues including:
· The purpose and goal of IP policy
· Where and how IP policy is developed in Government
· How IP policy has developed and been co-ordinated within the digital policy environment
· How the Government interacts and co-ordinates IP policy at an international level
· How policy impacting the protection of IP is co-ordinated across departments
The result is to be used to better understand how IP policy is developed and whether it could be improved