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TIGA: Patent Survey

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Patents can help to promote innovation and encourage investment, but recent years have seen some worrying developments: patent trolls; the acquisition of patents for defensive purposes to pre-empt the risk of litigation; and large sums being paid out for infringements of patents, which diverts money away from investment in R&D. Please take the trouble to respond to this short survey and so enable TIGA to represent the views of the industry effectively to policy makers.
1. Are patent trolls a problem for your business? *This question is required.
2. In relation to your business, is the problem of patent trolls: *This question is required.
4. Has your business registered any patents to protect intellectual property over the last two years? *This question is required.
5. Has your business acquired patents for defensive reasons i.e. to pre-empt the risk of litigation? *This question is required.
6. Over the last two years, have you been taken to court by a technology company accusing you of infringing its patent? *This question is required.
7. Has fear of court action or fear of infringing a patent deterred you from building on an existing technology? *This question is required.
8. Has fear of court action or fear of infringing a patent deterred you from selling in a certain territory? *This question is required.
9. Does your business accept the risk of accidentally infringing US software patents in its publishing and distribution contracts? *This question is required.
10. Do you think that there is a potential for 'innovation gridlock' – the difficulty of combining multiple technologies to create a single new product - because too many small patents are spread among too many players). *This question is required.
11. Would you support a variable patent regime whereby some kinds of inventions, like pharmaceuticals, would receive 20 years of ironclad protection, while others, like software, would receive shorter and more flexible terms? *This question is required.
12. Would you support the idea of an 'Innovator's Patent Agreement', whereby companies pledge that patents will be used only for defensive purposes? *This question is required.
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