Summary: While the Department of Trade and Industry’s recently published Intellectual Property Consultative Framework promises that future legislation will be the result of a thorough examination of the matters of concern by experts, and stakeholders, in the field, it should also consider undoing the potential damage which may have already been done to our intellectual property laws as a result of the failure to proceed with such rigour in the recent past.

To read the IP Chair’s full review of the IP Consultative Framework click here.