Intellectual Property Bill [HL]

I should advise the Committee that if this amendment is agreed, I cannot call Amendment 2 by reas...

My Lords, I am sure that the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, was only trying to be helpful with his f...

My Lords, at the outset of Committee, it may be helpful to remind everyone why the Bill is import...

Perhaps I may probe the noble Lord a little further on his views on what the optimum period for p...

I thank the noble Lord for that quite technical question. It is true that there is a clear discre...

Perhaps I may pursue this a little further. At Second Reading, I raised the point that in terms o...

My Lords, in pursuance to what my noble friend said immediately before the noble Lord, Lord Borri...

I thank my noble friend for that comment. I think that I said earlier that I would copy in all no...

My Lords, with his usual incisiveness, the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, immediately spotted wh...

Perhaps I can help the noble Lord. Your Lordships may remember that the Section 52 debate during ...

I thank the noble Lord for that intervention, but I think that that is the point I am trying to m...

Moved by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 12, leave out paragrap...

My Lords, let me reassure the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, that I am not big enough to frighte...

I need to declare an interest as a member of the Law Society and of the City of London Law Societ...

My Lords, Amendments 2 and 5 address various points in relation to the qualification criteria in ...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for his contribution, which, in a much more succinct ...

Moved by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

3: Clause 2, page 2, line 31, at end insert “, o...

Noble Lords will be relieved to know that this will be a much briefer contribution.

In thei...

My Lords, I have one question for the noble Viscount. In legislating to effect this change, how d...

My Lords, Amendments 3 and 9 address the transitional provisions associated with the changes to o...

I was trying to probe as to whether there was some distinction between the position of a designer...

The noble Lord again makes a good point. The default position is that it is down to the wording o...

I thank those who have participated in the debate. My noble friend Lord Howarth raised an interes...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

4: Clause 2, page 2, line 31, at end insert—

My Lords, this is more in the nature of a helpful suggestion than a probing amendment, although I...

My Lords, the suggested amendments to Clauses 2 and 6 would introduce detailed requirements to se...

I thank the Minister for his response. I think we are agreed in principle that this is something ...

I make a brief intervention to give notice to the Minister that I intend to raise this is at a fu...

I will indeed write to my noble friend.

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

6: Clause 5, page 4, line 7, at end insert—

My Lords, again, this is a probing amendment that emanates from points made in the response provi...

My Lords, the amendment seeks to provide an exemption against accusations of infringement of UK a...

I thank the Minister for his comments. When we were debating some of the Hargreaves exceptions in...

Moved by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

10: Clause 8, page 5, line 35, leave out subsect...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 10, I shall refer to Amendments 12 and 19 as well. Amendment 10 is ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Young, has encapsulated the argument pretty well. It merely takes ...

When the Minister comes to reply in a second, will he give the Committee some indication of the v...

I add to noble Lords’ wariness of this power. I have a particular question. It seems to me that a...

My Lords, Amendments 10, 11 and 12 would require regulations made under the power of Clause 8 to ...

My Lords, I welcome the assurance given by the Minister. In the circumstances, it is perfectly re...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

13: Clause 8, page 6, line 2, at end insert—

My Lords, this follows on from the discussion that we have been having in relation to the willing...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Stevenson for raising what I think the Committee ...

My Lords, this amendment would place a duty on the Secretary of State under this provision to rep...

I thank the Minister for his contribution and my noble friend Lord Howarth for making additional ...

“Ivan the Terrible”.

I was not going to mention Ivan the Terrible in particular, but there are other tsars of recent m...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

14: Clause 9, page 6, leave out lines 20 to 25