Interview: Pippa Hall, chief economist, UK IPO

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Interview: Pippa Hall, chief economist, UK IPO

September 09 2015
Pippa Hall

As the UK Intellectual Property Office announced its 2015-16 research and evaluation priorities, James Nurton spoke to chief economist Pippa Hall about data, difficulties between economists and lawyers and that recent article in The Economist

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