Lord C-J urges better filtering for minors by Public Wifi providers

Recently I asked a couple of  questions in the Lords about why standards of filtering for Public WiFi are worse than those adopted by the mobile operators.Read more

by Tim Clement-Jones

Lord C-J on Startups: Financing getting better but major skills gaps

Here is what I said in the Queen's Speech Debate about Start Ups in  the Creative and Tech Industries and how we can partner with Chinese creative industries.

In many respects the Queen’s Speech is to be welcomed, precisely for the fact that it does not contain a huge amount of new legislation. None the less, I welcome the carryover of the Consumer Rights Bill and the Deregulation Bill. Curiously, I note for the aspiring statesmen among us that it will, among other things, make statues easier to erect. I do not know whether your Lordships noticed that.

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by Tim Clement-Jones

Intellectual Property Bill

This is a Bill announced in the Queen's Speech this May which makes some valuable changes to the law applicable to designs both registered and unregistered and introduces a new Unified Patent Court to enforce the EU Unitary patent.

The Intellectual Property bill had its Second Reading on 22nd May. Whilst most of it's provisions are welcome there are a number of omissions that we argued should be corrected during the passage of the Bill through the House of Lords, in particular to align criminal offences for registered designs with those of unregistered design, to provide a remedy for lookalike products which mislead the consumer and to align criminal penalties for digital and physical copyright infringement.Read more

by Tim Clement-Jones