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IP: it all figures
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One of the showpiece seminars held by the Intellectual Property Institute, London, this summer was entitled IP and small firms in the UK: who's doing what, and does IP help?. The speaker, Oxford economist Mark Rogers, treated the audience to an account of the extent of use made by businesses over a 4-year period, dividing the available data by type of IP right applied for, size of enterprise, and scale profitability.