Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has taken steps to support victims of intellectual property theft.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
We recognise the importance of victims having access to the support they may need to cope and recover from the impact of crime. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) provides Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) with grant funding to commission victim support services for victims of all crime types. The Government is quadrupling funding for these services by 2024/25, up from £41 million in 2009/10. This includes a range of services commissioned locally for all victims of crime, including victims of fraud, based on assessments of need. PCCs are best placed to understand their local communities and providers, and to commission appropriate support to meet that need.
This is in addition to the support provided by the Action Fraud National Economic Crime Victim Care Unit (NECVCU), which is a focussed and targeted service providing victims of fraud and cyber-crime, with not only a consistent and high-quality response, but also a national standard of care and support. NECVCU is supporting all 43 forces in England and Wales at Level 1 (non-vulnerable victim care) and 38 forces at the enhanced Level 2 service. Since its inception in 2018, NECVCU has supported 403,432 (vulnerable or non-vulnerable) victims of fraud and prevented £2,882,616 being lost to fraud.
The Government is also taking steps to reduce intellectual property infringement and support the enforcement of intellectual property rights through the Intellectual Property Office (IPO). In February 2022, the IPO published its 5-year Intellectual Property Counter Infringement Strategy, which focuses on getting the right structures and processes needed to work together more effectively at home and internationally, to better understand the full threat and impact of intellectual property crime and infringement.
Oct. 16 2023
Source Page: The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023Found: The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Laid - 16 Oct 2023 In Force Not stated
These Regulations restate retained EU law deriving from directly effective rights arising under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the Agreement on the European Economic Area which concern the exhaustion of rights of the holder of an intellectual property right. The general principle of the exhaustion …
Found: Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Oct. 16 2023
Source Page: The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023Found: The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Oct. 16 2023
Source Page: The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023Found: The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Published - Monday 16th October 2023
Department: Department for Science, Innovation & TechnologyThese Regulations restate retained EU law deriving from directly effective rights arising under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the Agreement on the European Economic Area which concern the exhaustion of rights of the holder of an intellectual property right. The general principle of the exhaustion …
Found: The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Oct. 05 2023
Source Page: User research at the UK Intellectual Property OfficeFound: User research at the UK Intellectual Property Office
Asked by: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risks to intellectual property posed by sales on overseas e-commerce platforms.
Answered by Viscount Camrose - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The Government takes the issue of IP crime and infringement seriously and the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) plays a crucial role in the fight against online piracy and counterfeiting. It works closely with international partners, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, to assess the risks posed by sales on overseas e-commerce platforms and estimating the cost of counterfeiting to the UK economy. Their most recent report estimated that counterfeit goods imported to the UK were worth approximately £13.6 billion per year.
Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the support for victims of intellectual property theft provided by Action Fraud.
Answered by Saqib Bhatti - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
In 2023 the Government published a Fraud Strategy, setting out plans to reduce fraud by 10% by December 2024.
Action Fraud is the UK’s national information and reporting centre for fraud and financially motivated internet crime, including intellectual property theft. As part of the national fraud strategy, the government is committed to replacing Action Fraud with a new state-of-the-art reporting service, making it easier for victims to report crime, and for law enforcement to take action on victims’ reports.