Extract from committee stage (Lords) (day 2) of the National Security and Investment Bill - Mar 9

Wednesday, 10 March 2021 07:48

Lord Clement-Jones (LD): My Lords, I bow to my noble friend’s much superior knowledge on intellectual property issues. I entirely agree with her. That is a good reason for keeping provisions about intellectual property broadly speaking as they are. My noble friend pointed out to me that nowadays even Rolls-Royce engines are licensed as opposed to sold, because so much data is given off by their operation. That is proprietary in itself. So it is very difficult to distinguish between an...Request free trial