CB022 Intellectual Property office

We all have it but do we know what to do with it? A recent study by the Intellectual Property Office revealed that few of us do:

96% of UK businesses do not know the value of their Intellectual Property Rights
Only 11% of UK businesses know that disclosure of an invention before filing will invalidate a patent
74% of UK businesses could not correctly identify the owner of copyright when using a subcontractor

Only 4% of UK businesses have an Intellectual Property policy

In today’s chat Chris Smith from the Government’s Intellectual Property Office http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ tells Karon what a a business should know, including the use of the Trade Mark database. http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tm/t-find/t-find-text/

Chris is part of the Patent Examiner’s Business Outreach Team where he specialises in measurement devices such as smoke alarms, satellite navigation systems and nuclear magnetic resonance machines. Chris has a degree in Astrophysics from Cardiff University.

We apologise for the sound quality of the telephone line.