UK Responses to Questions for Boston 2008

Members interested in participating in the following questions for Boston in 2008 should make themselves known to the working party leaders who are indicated below.

• Question 202: "The impact of public health issues on exclusive patent rights" (Chair: Jeremy Brown)
• Question 203: "Damages for trademark infringement through counterfeiting and piracy" (Chair: Michael Edenborough)
• Question 204: "Liability for contributory infringement of IPRs" (Chair: Justin Watts)
• Question 205: "Exhaustion of IPRs in cases of recycling or repair of goods"
  (Chair: Trevor Cook)

Past UK Responses

Click on a link below to view the UK Group's response to a past question.

• Question 188: "Conflicts between trademark protection and free speech"
• Question 187: "Limitations on exclusive IP Rights by competition law"
• Question 186: "Punitive damages as a contentious issue of
  Intellectual Property Rights"
• Question 185: "Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights"
• Question 184: "IP Issues of the Treaty for the Free Trade Area of the
  Americas (FTAA)"
• Question 183: "Employer's Rights to Intellectual Property"
• Question 182: "Database protection at national and international level"
• Question 181: "Conditions for registration and scope of protection of
  non-conventional trademarks"
• Question 180: "Content and relevance of industrial applicability and/or
  utility as requirements for patentability"
• Question 175: "The role of equivalents and prosecution history in defining the scope of patent protection"
• Question 174: "Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in the case of Cross-Border Infringement (Infringing Acts) of Intellectual Property Rights"
• Question 173: "Issues of Co-existence of Trade Marks & Domain Names: Public versus Private International Registration Systems"
• Question 169: "Criminal Law Sanctions With Regard to the Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights"
• Question 168: "Use of a Mark "As a Mark" as a Legal Requirement in respect of Acquisition Maintenance and Infringement of Rights"
• Question 167: "Current Standards for prior art disclosure in assessing novelty and inventive step requirements"