Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons
Monday, 14 January 2019
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Lords
My Lords, I beg to move that the Committee considers the draft Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regu...
I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way. Can he tell us—the same issue came up with the...
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I will answer that in due course. The noble Lord will have an opportunity to speak after my speec...
The noble Lord said that he was going to cover the issue of consultation later in his remarks and...
My Lords, I did not say that and the noble Lord should not put words into my mouth. I said that w...
My Lords, I do not think that that is a satisfactory response at all. Our consideration of this r...
The noble Lord intervened more than once during the previous debate. I had a number of responses ...
I am not giving way.
I was in the Chamber.
Will the noble Lord sit down? I have not given way to him. The noble Lord can make his point when...
My Lords, it might be for the convenience of the Committee if I were to put the Question so that ...
My Lords, I do not think it is for the convenience of the Committee, because the noble Lord has j...
My Lords, I quite understand that the noble Lord was in the Chamber and therefore not able to be ...
No; there is no need for noble Lords to get up. I will sit down and give way to the noble Barones...
Can the noble Baroness wait just a moment? I am still speaking. It is quite right that we make ap...
I was actually trying to be a little helpful. In the notes on this matter, there is a little more...
May I intervene to be helpful to the Minister? He might wish to consider withholding his remarks ...
The noble Baroness, Lady Kingsmill, suggested that it was only lawyers who were consulted. There ...
My Lords, I hope to throw a little light on the subject of consultation during the course of my r...
My Lords, in the light of what the noble Lord has said, does he not think it extraordinary that p...
I totally agree with the noble Lord and will set out my reasons for doing so in relation to this ...
Is not the point that the noble Lord is making rather wider than that? He seems to be saying that...
The noble Lord is spot on. That is exactly the point that I am making. I want to develop the argu...
My Lords, I think the noble Lord is making a case which is of great concern to the Grand Committe...
According to the BIA, which is a cautious body that keeps its finger on the pulse of the sector v...
This is too long.
I am sorry if I am taking up a bit of time. I have heard longer speeches and I have been interrup...
My Lords, I have rarely heard in Grand Committee a speech of greater concern to a major industria...
I am grateful to the noble Lord for his support. I have never been much of a one for taking notic...
My Lords, I am concerned about the consultation element. I am interested in the difference betwee...
I take the noble Lord’s point entirely. However, having pointed out the inadequacy of the consult...
The noble Baroness makes an important point. I want to follow this line because if the consultati...
The noble Lord is making a powerful point. Did he note the remark made by the Minister in the deb...
I do not think that I ought to follow the noble Lord down that road because otherwise there will ...
Perhaps I may further the point that the noble Lord is making. We have now established pretty wel...
That is absolutely true. It all adds up to my last point, which I feel is the most important poin...
I am grateful to the noble Lord and agree with every word he said. Rather more elegantly than I, ...
I entirely agree, but I add to that list the Minister because, like every other Minister, he has ...
Before the noble Lord sits down, in the concluding remarks of his extremely powerful speech he re...
I do not want to embarrass any Ministers, including the noble Lord who is here. I want to exclude...
My Lords, in my now quite long experience of the House I have found that on most occasions when p...
They turn out to be lawyers. I have nothing against lawyers; my noble friend Lady Kingsmill is a ...
I want to be fair to the IPO. It arranged to have a conversation with me at my request and it was...
My Lords, my noble friend has made an extremely grave allegation. Would the Minister care to say ...
I will be responding in due course.
I think that the Grand Committee will be extremely concerned to have information on this point. I...
What is more, that one person was selected but clearly not trusted.
I was going to leave this to the end and I suspect that any intervention I make will just prolong...
I flatly reject the idea that the BIA was consulted on the exclusivity aspects of these regulatio...
My Lords, we seem to have a serious situation where the Minister has just said that one body of c...
The exclusivity point is for another regulation on the MHRA.
The exclusivity point is a key element in these regulations, as I made clear. If the Minister loo...
My Lords, I am not sure if it is helpful to continue this discussion. That point is for another r...
I wonder if the Minister could help me out. I have been listening to the speeches since I came ba...
My Lords, I will continue with these regulations: I have moved them. No doubt the noble Lord will...
My Lords, a situation has arisen where there is a serious difference of view, to put it mildly—
A difference of fact.
A difference of fact, as my noble friend has just said, between the Minister and my noble friend ...
Is the noble Lord not being a bit unfair to the Minister? Is the real problem here not the word “...
The noble Lord makes a very good point. The Minister himself played no part in this process. All ...
I shall pretend to be a Minister and say that I shall look at that very carefully.
In the want of a better solution, I shall recommend to the Government that my noble friend Lord F...
Maybe I should start with the last thing; I understand the point but I have not investigated it m...
My Lords, we have to conclude after the debate so far that this SI is holed below the waterline a...
I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord further but I want to give a bit of support to what he is ...
I thank the noble Lord for that intervention because that is exactly the impression that I had go...
My Lords, this has been a good debate that has raised lots of issues. I think the noble Lord, Lor...
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way. Does he not think that the best way of...
My Lords, I regularly spend most of my day with Alice in Wonderland because I think that it is a ...
My Lords, I confess that I cannot begin to answer the noble Lord’s question about the Isle of Man...
The Minister has been very kind and polite, and I am most grateful to him. Talking about the impo...
My Lords, I am always kind and polite to the noble Lord. I know he is a delicate flower and does ...
Will the noble Baroness let me finish? I will then give way. She must not be quite so enthusiasti...
My Lords, it surprises me that the Minister is not concerned by the extent of the statutory instr...
My Lords, I simply do not accept that point. The fact is that we are doing them now and giving th...
One more point very briefly—
My Lords, I am on my feet, and I will give way to the noble Baroness when I wish. I will now give...
May I just say that we have been at this for getting on for four hours? If we proceed at this pac...
My Lords, the noble Baroness is getting on to wider questions. I cannot remember whether it is in...
I just want to clarify for the Minister that the damage to the life sciences will be wider as a r...
The noble Lord is right to point to the importance of the life sciences sector, and I am grateful...
I apologise to the Minister but actually it was not the Bristows opinion; the 39-page opinion tha...
I look forward to reading the opinion that has emanated from Brick Court Chambers in due course. ...
That was the noble Lord, Lord Adonis.
I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Adonis. I will no doubt study, as will my officials, both the...
Before the Minister sits down, he has very kindly said that he will write to respond to a number ...
I think that the noble Lord would not expect me to respond quite as positively as he wishes. It m...
I have two points before the Minister sits down. First, I do not think he replied to my point abo...
My Lords, I will write to the noble Baroness on both those points.
My Lords, a moment ago the Minister mentioned writing to “appropriate Peers”. I have never before...
This is one occasion where I can give a categorical assurance to the noble Lord, because he merel...
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for seeking to define “appropriate”, but I do not think t...
I am grateful to the noble Lord, because obviously he always considers what is important to the H...
The Question is that the Grand Committee do consider the Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulation...
Not content.
My Lords, I must remind the Grand Committee that a single call of “Not content” has the effect of...
Not content.