01 July 2009

Meet the people shaping the future of IP

Managing IP publishes its seventh annual list of the 50 most influential people in IP

Are politicians able to take the initiative on reforming the IP system? Many IP owners may be starting to doubt that they can. Over the past year, rights owners around the world have seen a series of legislative attempts to reform IP practice stall: the European Commission has not yet persuaded member states to introduce a Community patent and a unified patent litigation system; Congress has failed to agree, as yet, on a law to overhaul the US patent regime; and in countries from New Zealand to France government attempts to make internet service providers take more responsibility for monitoring the accounts of persistent downloaders have been stymied by the courts or fears of a public opinion backlash.

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