Responses to the Questionnaire for SME, Small-Cap and Mid-Cap Businesses
European Patent Office Author Kārlis Dambrāns Licence CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert In IPO Consultation on SEPs and Innovation , I mentioned the Intellectual Property Office's open consultation on SEPs and innovation and issued a call for views on 19 Dec 2021. The responses to that consultation appear in Standard Essential Patents and Innovation: Summary of Responses to the Call for Views which was updated on 5# July 2023. On 21 March 2023, the IPO published a questionnaire on standard essential patents ("SEPs") for SME small-cap and mid-cap businesses. which I discussed in IPO Consults on SEP Licensing on 24 March 2023. The IPO received 47 responses to that questionnaire including one from me. It published the outcome of the consultation on 5 July 2023 (see SEPs questionnaire for SME, small-cap and mid-cap businesses: Summary of Response ). It intends to consider the r...