RE: Newsflow20 Aug 2020 10:54
Very interesting.
Commenting on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), Ofwat said that background and foreground IPR will be differentiated.
Typically, Background IP is pre-existing intellectual property that a party brings to a research project, while Foreground IP is intellectual property generated in the research project.
Foreground IPR will be made available royalty free to the water companies in England and Wales by all project participants (watercompanies, business retailers and other third parties)
So, for arguments sake, #MWG and #SKIN use their background IP to facilitate/develop foreground IPR, where do the royalties end up? Would any use of background IP, no matter how small, default that work, in total, to being an IP situation and thus retain all IP rights to the participating company?