Intellectual Property Advisory Committee

HC Deb 16 October 2001 vol 372 c1160W

Mr. McWilliam

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what progress she has made in appointing the new Intellectual Property Advisory Committee. [8318]

Miss Melanie Johnson

I have appointed Mr. Ian Harvey, Chief Executive Officer of BTG plc, to chair the IP Advisory Committee. I have appointed the following as members of the CommitteeDiana Adie, former head of IP at the BBC Professor Sue Birley, Director of Imperial College Entrepreneurship Centre Richard Gallafent, patent attorney Professor Paul Geroski, deputy-chair of the Competition Commission Mandy Haberman, businesswoman and inventor Roland Hill, consulting engineer, inventor and businessman Paul Johnston, IP Manager at ICI Paints and ICI Group Trade Mark Counsel Hilary Newiss, self-employed solicitor and IP consultant David Perkins, solicitor and head of IP Europe at Clifford Chance Tim Roberts, patent attorney, president of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, and former IP manager at Zeneca Seeds Dr Sandy Thomas, director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Professor David Vaver, director of Oxford University IP Research Centre.

Further details are available at the committee's website http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/ipac and in the press release announcing the membership, copies of which have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.