In 1967 the Board of Trade set up a Committee to review the patent system. The Committee was presided over by Mr Maurice Banks, a former executive of BP. The Report was presented to Parliament by the President of the Board of Trade on 14 July 1970. It was published...
The Committee had been established in 1959 to investigate the law of designs (and honour a pledge made in May 1958 by the President of the Board of Trade to Alan Green, Conservative MP for Preston, in return for his withdrawing a Bill that would have created a 3 year...
JM Aubrey "Obituary: Sir Reginald Mathys" 6 Chartered Institute of Patent Agents Journal, 1977 p. 528.
In August 1973, the Government set up a committee to investigate the law of copyright and designs, headed by High Court Judge, Jack Whitford(1913-2001). The other members were Professor WH Barber , Mr George Vernon Kennedy Burton (1916- , CEO of Fisons, and...
