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Debate from the inner temple

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Monday 28 June 2010

Grays Inn, London

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Universities in the UK have lost millions of pounds in revenue by not protecting their Intellectual Property, according to Professor Graham Richards from Oxford University.

The TIPLO meeting in June, at the Inner Temple, London, raised the issues in the ongoing debate on academic freedom and the increasing desire by both government and universities to exploit, through commercial routes, the results of academic research.

Richards, who led the collaboration between Beeson Gregory and the Oxford University Chemistry Department, argued that far from restricting academic freedom, protecting IP can inject greater momentum and drive into academic research. In contrast Dr. Catherine Rhodes, of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, and a signatory of the Manchester Manifesto, argued that for many universities the cost of managing IP protection outweighs any commercial advantage.

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