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On 30 November 2023, the Center for Intellectual Property
Understanding (CIPU) published the findings of a survey on “Intellectual Property
Principle – What the IP Community regards as important” (executive summary
and slides).
The survey was conducted by response:AI, an independent market research firm.
The survey was launched on 14 September 2023 and
ended on 27 October 2023 with the goals of assessing the attitudes and beliefs
towards IP among inventors, creators, IP lawyers, service providers, educators,
IP advisors, investors and government or public policy officials, with a total of
213 respondents. The survey focused on providing an assessment on the
perception of the value of IP rights (patents, copyrights and trademarks) also
in comparison to other types of property rights and whether IP rights encourage
sharing.
Key findings
The four principles
identified by IPbasics.org were of help
in understanding the survey: IP is property, IP encourage sharing, IP
infringement has consequences, good IP behavior is learned.
The key findings of
the survey are summarized as follows:
– Creators and IP
professionals concur that an invention, name or work of creative expression can
have value like any other property: 88% strongly agree with this statement while
another 9% agree “somewhat”;
– 96% of those
surveyed agree that copyrights, trademarks, patents and trade secrets provide
value to both owners and society at large;
– 71% of respondents
believe strongly that patents have a positive impact on innovation and 68% on
the economy as a whole;
– 73% believe strongly
in copyrights’ positive impact on creative expression and 66% on society as a
whole;
Difference regarding
business, impact;
– 100% of corporate
respondents and consultants believe that IP infringement hurts business;
– The view that IP
theft, deliberate or not, threatens jobs and compromises consumer safety is
held by 98% of those with more than 30 years IP experience but only 85% or
those will less than 10 years;
– There is less
agreement across the community that IP protections encourage sharing: 71% agree
with this statement while 13% have no opinion and 16% disagree;
– Attorneys are the most likely to disagree that
IP protections encourage sharing (25%), followed by those in education and
government (21%).
Comment
As a general view, we may find a confirmation
on the IP community recognises the value of IP and a certain impact on
innovation, while there is still disparity of views on IP infringement’s
consequences and that IP protection encourages sharing. It is worth noting that
only 36% of the respondents strongly agreed on the latter principle, with all
this suggesting that the possibility of creating value by sharing IP still
looks controversial.
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