Responding to the Hargreaves review of the UK’s intellectual property regime, FT general counsel Tim Bratton puts forward the case for a Rights Clearance Panel

However much work you have to do right now, however many unread documents or emails are sitting in your inbox, spare a thought for Professor Ian Hargreaves and his team. On Friday 4 March the broadband network at the Intellectual Property Office must have been creaking for bandwidth as submissions arrived in response to their call for evidence.