9. U.K. Patent office opens consultation on IP rights.

The U.K.Patent office has launched a consultation on implementingregulations that would make it simpler to enforce IPR in civil law across the EU so giving individuals and companies developing new technologies & products much greater confidence that their ideas will be protected.

IP crime has a serious economic effect both in the U.K. and around the world and the Patent Office continues to work with enforcement and industry partners to figure out such crime.
The IP crime group has set out a four -point action plan based on the first National IP crime strategy published last august.

The EC has also suggested proposals to combat criminal infringements of IP rights.The EC and Parliament are now taking the commission proposals forward for further discussion and development.