Rishi Sunak, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, has announced £13 million ($16.3 million) in funding for a rollout of more business and IP centres across the UK, as part an effort to better protect IP rights across the UK’s regions. The move, revealed in March 11 budget, was cautiously welcomed by Anti Copying in Design (ACID), a UK design and IP campaigning organisation. ACID’s CEO, Dids Macdonald, praised the extra money, but called for it “to be accompanied by a more robust enforcement strategy, both inside and outside the UK”, she continued, “This will be particularly important as the UK leaves the EU. We need to put IP at the top table and protect the UK’s creative industries with a unified enforcement system.”

Source: World IP Review