Patent use in the UK
| Dates: | 9 February 2015 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Manchester Institute of Innovation Research |
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| Venue opening hours: | 1-2pm (coffee from 12.30pm) |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Suma Athreye |
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Patents as an institution combine incentives for the production of technological knowledge (by granting temporary monopolies) with incentives for diffusion of that knowledge (usually through licensing). However, we know little about how patents are actually used, either to earn rents on own innovations or to facilitate trade in technology. Several developments suggest that the use of technology vested in patents has grown through the late 80s and 90s in the UK and has benefited both small and large firms and new technology based spin-offs. Yet, public discourse on intellectual property often focuses very narrowly, sometimes primed only by anecdotal accounts of how patents are being used (or abused). Similar concerns about our lack of knowledge of what happens to patents once they are issued have been expressed in the Hargreaves review (2011) of UK Intellectual Property. In this talk I will summarise my work since 2009 on the use of patents in the UK for protecting the rents to own innovation and to facilitate technology licensing to others as well as draw upon the implications of my research for UK patent policy.
Speaker
Suma Athreye
Role: Professor of International Strategy
Organisation: Brunel Business School, Brunel University
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Harold Hankins building
Oxford Road
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