Written question asked by Earl of Clancarty (Crossbench) on Friday, 1 February 2019, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Friday, 15 February 2019. It was answered by Lord Henley (Conservative) on Thursday, 14 February 2019 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Intellectual Property

Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications for the UK's intellectual property framework of a free trade deal with the United States.

Answer: The implications of a potential US trade agreement on the UK’s IP framework will depend on any final negotiated text. As negotiations are yet to begin, there is no deal to assess against. However, Government officials are considering the costs and benefits to the UK of similar existing trade agreement provisions and are taking into account stakeholder responses to the Department for International Trade’s consultation on a potential US trade agreement which closed on 26 October 2018.

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