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Thank you for your thoughtful reply to my ...Jeff, <br /><br />Thank you for your thoughtful reply to my comment.<br /><br />In response, let me begin by saying that I agree with an awful lot of what you say. I think therefore that I should begin by clarifying my views on the EU's IP agenda.<br /><br />The problem with the EU's IP policy is that it is excessively focussed on creating unneccessary and economically unjustified IP rights, rather than on improving the mechanics of existing ones. Consider three recent pieces of IP legislation: the Database Directive, the Artist's Resale Right Directive and the Design Directive. Each of these I would suggest is at best economically irrelevant, and at worst positively damaging for creativity/innovation in Europe. Yet each has consumed large amounts of legislative time and sapped 'goodwill' for IP. At present the EU is squandering negotiating muscle in trade talks by pushing forward the barely disguised protectionist agenda of Geographical Indications.<br /><br />So the EU is very successful at promulgating new and unneccessary IPRs. On the other hand, when it comes to really important issues - commercialisation of research, technology transfer block exemptions, establishment of a single European patent - it either fails, or burdens industry with unnecessary regulation. This is, as you point out, where the contrast with the US is most apparent. <br /><br />Finally, I return to the more abstract issue of whether IPRs are a critical factor towards achieving economic success. This remains an issue about which economist theorists are divided. No-one disputes that IPRs create incentives for research, which ultimately drives progress in knowledge based economies. On the other hand, IPRs do impose a dead weight loss on consumers, and can hinder further innovation, thus lowering overall economic welfare. Accordingly, it is important for policy makers to ensure that checks and balances are built into the IPR system (e.g. exceptions for experimental research). I was therefore somewhat bemused by Simon's rather romantic extolling of IPRs - it is not as simple a picture as he was painting. <br /><br />My simple point is that MORE IP rights is not necessarily a good thing. Unfortunately, this is where the EU has expended a lot of its energies. However, I wholeheartedly agree with you that establishing more efficient, commercially attuned mechanisms for exploitation (necessary) IP rights is where action is requiried. <br /><br />Regards<br /><br /><br />John CahirAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com