Intellectual Property Bill [Lords]

My hon. Friend speaks very well on behalf of Dyson in his constituency. I recently met representa...

The Minister accurately sums up the view of Anti-Copying in Design when it comes to registered de...

I will, of course, consider all these issues as the Bill is debated in Committee. I think we have...

I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. As many...

We will be able to apply the provision to any companies active within the UK. If the goods are ma...

I am pleased to see the Bill before the House, but the Minister will recognise that large section...

I do not know to what extent you, Mr Speaker, would permit the debate to range across the entire ...

Will the report that the IPO will provide to Parliament each year include sections to do with the...

Yes, I certainly envisage the report covering issues where further work may be needed. It will be...

The Minister is absolutely right to highlight the importance of clause 20, which is very welcome....

My hon. Friend has made that point to me and I have considered it. He is right that the Wellcome ...

Before the Minister concludes, will he apprise the House of the changes that he said will help to...

That is a very good question. Above all, we will look to the further growth of innovative SMEs in...

I thank the Minister for outlining the provisions in the Bill.

Intellectual property matter...

Will the hon. Gentleman also plug “Game of Thrones”, which is filmed in Northern Ireland and is o...

The hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. In the creative industries, and in industry as a whol...

My hon. Friend will be aware of the report by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on creativit...

I thank my hon. Friend for that question, but where does he think I am getting these statistics, ...

Will my hon. Friend give way before he leaves the subject of the creative industries?

Before I move on to manufacturing I will give way to my hon. Friend.

Everything my hon. Friend has said about the creative industries shows how important they are. Do...

Yes, it does; my hon. Friend is spot on. Given that 11 industrial sector documents—I think—have b...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it may be time to start moving towards a US-style IP tsar to c...

I think the hon. Gentleman is pitching for that job, so he should have declared his interest. How...

My hon. Friend says that the UK is the No. 1 place in the world for IP, but the ranking in that s...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. There is a second consideration. We might have the best ...

One place where one of these divisional courts will not be—so far—is in Scotland. Will the hon. G...

When I was reading Hansard from another place on this matter, many noble Lords mentioned the impo...

I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak briefly on Second Reading this afternoon. Given t...

I strongly support what my hon. Friend is saying about the importance of the digital realm. Publi...

I agree with my hon. Friend that we need an international, as well as a national, dimension.

I hope that we can say more later about the role of Google and the way in which it investigates, ...

I thank my fellow member of the Select Committee for his intervention. He will recall that we vis...

Has not the technology out-developed the legislation? Should not section 73 of the 1988 Act be ad...

Yes, I think time is up for the likes of Sky and Virgin. They have been making a lot of money on ...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on reading out so thoroughly the briefing provided by ITV on th...

The fact remains that the likes of cable platforms are making significant amounts of money on the...

I think everybody welcomes the Bill as far as it goes. The Minister said in introducing it that i...

Very sensible!

Well, I am an engineer by training. I just happen to know these things. We could bring forward th...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for London South East or wherever it is. [Interr...

I am not sure, but would not the answer be to allocate shares, rather than to give them? If share...

I am sure that my hon. Friend has a little more knowledge of that. I think that some specific pro...

I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I also ...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the importance of IP rights. Does he agree that...

The hon. Gentleman is spot on. So much more could be done through educational initiatives. I have...

I have listened carefully to the arguments about unregistered designs, and I wonder how this matt...

ACID has built up a database of unregistered designs, and tens of thousands of people have regist...

Several Members have raised this issue. As the hon. Gentleman rightly said, London will be one of...

I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for saying that; it does bring a degree of comfort...

As a matter of fact, what the hon. Gentleman says about Google not producing its own content is i...

I was perhaps a tad too harsh in relation to Google producing some of its content. Yes, it copies...

It is a great honour to follow the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart). I g...

It is a great pleasure to be involved in this debate and to follow the hon. Member for Hove (Mike...

I am sure it was a slip of the tongue, but I remind my hon. Friend, as I reminded the Prime Minis...

How soon I forget. My hon. Friend is right: Viscount Younger did come before the Select Committee...

Does the hon. Gentleman support my call for the music industry to have a tax credit for A and R, ...

I do. I know it is difficult when, in austere times, we are asking the Treasury to give more tax ...

Like my hon. Friend, I am interested in how successful the legislation will be in addressing new ...

I would be interested to see how the Minister responds to those issues because it is difficult to...

I do not want to delay the House long because I have just a few comments, mainly about business g...

It crosses my mind that it must be extremely difficult to protect our industries when countries —...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman. When I was in engineering, we did a staggering amount of work fo...

I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in the debate. I agree with everything my hon. Frie...

rose—

I will say why after I have given way to the hon. Gentleman.

My point was that, when we get the education right and people understand that stealing intellectu...

The point is that the people operating on a commercial scale are in a different category and shou...

I am a little intrigued by the hon. Lady’s “Scarborough Fair” example. I presume that Simon and G...

Unhappily, I think that that is exactly what did happen, and that was a mistake. I just want to c...

It is all too easy to characterise this as a Bill of interest only to lawyers—one that is technic...

With the leave of the House, I wish to respond to what has been a very knowledgeable debate—fitti...

With the leave of the House, I would like to respond briefly to the many issues raised in this us...

I would not want our earlier exchanges to be seen as negative about the IPO in any way. In my sma...

I did not know that I had confirmed that! I must have strayed into that confirmation, as I was ab...

Will the Minister adjudicate on the little dispute about whether it is possible for an artist or ...

I am not aware of Simon and Garfunkel having gone around Derbyshire—

Durham.

Sorry, was it Durham? I am not aware of Simon and Garfunkel prosecuting folk musicians for singin...