Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 Debate
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Lord Maxton
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Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
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Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
I am most grateful to the noble Lord. The lesson in fly fishing that he taught me has worked.
Lord Maxton (Lab)
My Lords, I rise briefly just to make a point to the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde. On intellectual property, the Minister did not say one single word about the changing technologies that greatly affect the way in which intellectual property is seen. I have not read, or even picked up, a book for the last two years—because I read on a Kindle. What about that sort of change?
Lord Henley
My Lords, some of us still read books, and some of us still read letters. I shall not follow up the Scottish exchanges that have just taken place; I shall start with the letter referred to by the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson—the letter that I sent, I think, on 21 January. The noble Lord, Lord Adonis, described it as “extensive”; the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, said that it was eight pages long. What I have in front of me is six and a half pages long, so I just want to be clear that we are all talking about the same letter. I see that the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, and I are going to count.