questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a regulator in the patent market.
answerText: The aim of the patent system is to incentivise innovation through the grant of a temporary exclusive right to protect inventions. In exchange for the right to exclude others from making, selling or using an invention, the details of the invention are publ...
heading: Patents: Regulation