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ICSTI: Report on IPR and Science by the Royal Society (UK)
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- From: Pete Strickland <ps@iucr.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 11:21:34 +0100 (BST)
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: Barry Mahon <mahons1@EIRCOM.NET> Subject: Report on IPR and Science by the Royal Society (UK) To: ICSTI-L@DTIC.MIL Precedence: list X-UIDL: hn_!!7I]"!H`F"!N/f!! Status: R X-Status: N >From NFAIS notes (with apologies to those who have already received it) Keeping Science Open: The effects of intellectual property policy on the conduct of science, The Royal Society (UK) http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/files/statfiles/document-221.pdf With some overlap in content, this report covers intellectual property rights as they pertain to patents, copyright and database protection. The Royal Society makes recommendations to the British government in matters of science and this report discusses "whether there could be improvements in the ways in the ways intellectual property law, its interpretation and its use impact on science." A significant proportion of the report centers on patents, and the recommendations contained in the report reflect common concerns voiced across the global scientific community. The committee which created the report was the Royal Society working group on intellectual property. The Members are: Professor Roger Needham CBE FRS FREng (Chair), Managing Director, Microsoft Research Ltd Dr Mike Barlow, Head of Patents and Agreements, BP International Ltd Sir Roger Elliott FRS, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and former Chief Executive Officer, Oxford University Press Professor Peter Lawrenson FRS, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds Ms Hilary Newiss, formerly Head of Intellectual Property Group, Denton Hall, Solicitors Professor John Pethica FRS, Research Professor at Trinity College Dublin, and Materials Science, University of Oxford Dr John Reid OBE, patent attorney Abel & Imray and Chairman of the Intellectual Property Awareness Group Sir John Sulston FRS, formerly Director, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge Professor David Vaver, Reuters Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford ------------------------------------------------------- -- Best wishes Peter Strickland Managing Editor IUCr Journals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IUCr Editorial Office, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England Phone: 44 1244 342878 Fax: 44 1244 314888 Email: ps@iucr.org Ftp: ftp.iucr.org WWW: http://journals.iucr.org/ NEWSFLASH: Complete text of all IUCr journals back to 1948 now online! Visit Crystallography Journals Online for more details
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