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This area houses reference documents supplied by Make Sparks Fly conference speakers and other interested parties.
New Intellectual Property Papers
A collection of recent IP papers, compressed in a .ZIP file format.
Papers include:
- COMPAT
- Inventors' Lament
- IP Enforcement Paper
File size is 838Kb.
You will need an extractor programme (such as WinZip) to open this file.
The documents can be downloaded seperately at the bottom of this page. Without the need for an extractor.
Dilemmas of software SMEs: Empirical findings from Europe
Dr. Puay Tang, University of Sussex, UK
MSF Guide
This document gives an overview of the various areas of Make Sparks Fly, as well as instructions for logging on and using the Discussion and Conference areas.
English Private Inventor Wins Patent Infringement Suit
Musician Quotes
The current hot topic of music piracy has generated much comment, not least from the record artists and musicians themselves. This document contains a selection of quotes from some of the most popular record artists in the world.
Tightening the Net. The Internet Music Revolutionﾒ an MBA dissertation by Helen Gammons
The music industry faces new challenges in a consumer focussed era. It's biggest problem is to safe guard its primary assets
( Master Recordings and Songs) whilst embracing the development of new income streams through the Internet.
This document looks in detail at these issues facing the music industry today.
Are Patents Worthwhile for an Inventor? - Debate Transcript
This document is a transcript of the highly successful debate, Are Patents Worthwhile for an Inventor?, held here on Make Sparks Fly on 5th November 2002.
DIGITAL COPYRIGHT: THE END OF AN ERA
by Dr Martin Kretschmer
Reader in Intellectual Property; Joint Director, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management, Bournemouth University (www.cippm.org.uk)
Visiting Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London
Business as usual or a real paradigm shift?
by Roger Wallis, Executive Chairman
Society of Popular Music Composers (SKAP)
Debate Review: 'Music Piracy - Victimless Crime or Outright Theft' - 14 February, 2003
A transcript of the second MakeSparksFly debate.
Struggles of an Inventor
Whilst UK Government is workinghard to support and encourage innovation, British business, in general, still lacks the imagination to take advantage of the opportunities being offered. Aziz Patel's story tells a familiar tale of an inventor struggling to bring his idea to market.
Inventor's Lament
Mandy Haberman and Roland Hill, the authors of this document, are two inventors who have created SMEs based on their respective inventions, who have experienced infringement of their patent rights and the difficulties of enforcement in the UK, other European countries and the USA. Some of our views and recommendations may be considered to be controversial. However, we believe society as a whole is not being well served by the present patent enforcement regime in the UK or elsewhere where the legal costs of litigation are too high for all but the very rich.
This document represents our best efforts to identify what might be done to improve the situation for the lone inventor or SME.
IPAC Enforcement Paper
Published 18-11-03 by the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee
COMPAT
Patentee and inventor Mandy Haberman's personal views on COMPAT.
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