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Departmental Information

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what types of data have been sold by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations in the last 12 months. (222101)

Core information produced by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills can be reused free of charge under the terms of the PSI Click-Use Licence which is administered by the Office of Public Sector Information in accordance with the Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations.

Neither the core Department nor the National Weights and Measures Laboratory has charged for re-use of any data in the last 12 months. The UK Intellectual Property Office has charged for re-use of the following types of data:

UK patent bibliographic databases;

Supplementary Protection Certificates;

Bibliographic databases;

UK patent abstract data;

UK patent “A” image data;

UK patent “B” image data;

Reports on Patents Cases;

UK trade mark text database;

UK trade mark image database;

International trade marks with a UK designation.