[okfn-coord] [Fwd: Re: Touching base] -- meeting with patent office

[Rufus Pollock]

Please keep this confidential.

~rufus

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Touching base]
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:49:28 +0100
From: Duncan Wearmouth <Duncan.Wearmouth at patent.gov.uk>
To: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>

Rufus,

Thanks.  I did get it, but have been out and about so unable to
co-ordinate with colleagues and hence the delay.  All of the copyright
team is now based in Newport, South Wales.  I'm afraid I will miss the
IPPR event this friday as I'm off to Helsinki tomorrow for the Finnish
Presidency event on Copyright & Content Policy.  On getting together,
excluding patents and limiting to Copyright sounds sensible, but as you
say, a broad area. Although you have seen some of my team in passing at
WIPO (Ceri & Michele) and you may have dealt with Janette McNeill in the
past when she was working on CII, I wondered whether there would be a
more fruitful discussion if you met us all rather than just me.  We
wouldn't need to narrow the discussion then and it would of course set
us up for more specific dialogue on issues which could be taken forward
by the particular dossier owners in my team.  How do you fancy visiting
Newport?  I'm happy to pay the travel costs.  How are you fixed for last
week of July/first week of August?

Kind regards

Duncan

PS You may already be aware, but I was told last week that the
additional session of the SCCR is pencilled in for September 11- 13 (Mon
- Wed)

Duncan Wearmouth
Director of Copyright & Enforcement
Intellectual Property & Innovation Directorate
The Patent Office
Tel: 01633 813782
Fax: 01633 814817
Email: duncan.wearmouth at patent.gov.uk

>>> Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> 11/07/2006 11:35 >>>
Dear Duncan,

Not sure this email got through so I'm just resending to make sure
you've got it.

Regards,

Rufus

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Touching base
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:26:41 +0100
From: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
To: Duncan Wearmouth <Duncan.Wearmouth at patent.gov.uk>
References: <s4a3f256.042 at pdd04.patent.gov.uk>

Dear Duncan,

You did have an email address, unfortunately it was one that got so
spammed that I had to shut it down. In any case I would be very happy
to
meet up. I am based in Cambridge but down in London on a semi-regular
basis -- for example I will down monday and friday next week. Where
are
you located and would either London or Cambridge be convenient? In
terms
of focusing the discussion for a start we could exclude all
patent-related issues. Of course this still leaves a wide field and
I'm
very happy to narrow this further.

Regards,

Rufus Pollock

Duncan Wearmouth wrote:
> Rufus,
> 
> Not sure that I'd got the correct email address in the attached...
you
> wear so many hats!  Would like to touch base with you some time
though.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Duncan
> 
> Duncan Wearmouth
> Director of Copyright & Enforcement
> Intellectual Property & Innovation Directorate
> The Patent Office
> Tel: 01633 813782
> Fax: 01633 814817
> Email: duncan.wearmouth at patent.gov.uk 
> 
> 

Duncan Wearmouth originally wrote on 26/05/2006:
> Rufus,
> 
> Just finished reading your paper on "The value of the Public Domain".

> I found it thought provoking and it then made me think that we
always
> seem to be only having snatched brief conversations in the coffee
breaks
> or margins of meetings.  If you are happy to do so, I would like to
meet
> up for a general meeting where we could have a more purposeful
> discussion.  Happy to speak about any issue, but given the breadth
of
> stuff you are involved in, it would be helpful for me if we could
agree
> a few areas up front.
> 
> Could you let me no your availability for the last week of June
onwards
> - I'm on leave now until the 19th June.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Duncan
> 
> Duncan Wearmouth
> Deputy Director
> Head of Europe, Copyright,
> Trade Marks & Design Policy
> Intellectual Property & Innovation Directorate
> The Patent Office
> Tel: 01633 813782
> Fax: 01633 814817
> Email: duncan.wearmouth at patent.gov.uk