In the best pundit style these are my SOLO predictions for the IP profession in the UK: Let me know what I have missed out
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| Crystal Ball Applied to 2011 |
- The Unitary but not-Community Patent Initiative will not succeed. Politicians will blame the IPkat reading masses for calling it a CRAP patent but the real reason will be that it will not have big business support
- The Hargreaves Review will recommend amendments to the Copyright Act leading to much acrimonious litigation in the next ten years at least
- CIPA and ITMA will merge - reluctantly but in the face of demand from the IPRegulated to stop wasting resources
- The IP Strategist will become the unregulated "financial adviser" in the IP profession
- OHIM will start a new line of business
- His Honour Judge Birss will be very busy
- Baroness Wilcox will be replaced in a reshuffle
- The EPO bar will begin to influence the filing strategies of the multinationals having adverse effects on the traditional patent agent profession
- Start ups and Investors will begin to find that IP educated managers are worth a check box in their due -diligence lists
- DIY or in-house patent drafting will become more popular and online tools will become available to facilitate support from entrepreneurial agents. Here is one that already exists
- All EPO decisions on Petitions for Review will be clearly unallowable
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