Draft Glasgow Commonwealth Games Bill - Consultation Document

Glasgow is bidding to host the Commonwealth Games in 2014. If Scotland wins its bid, legislation will be required to support the delivery of the Games and to protect them from ambush marketing. The Scottish Executive have recently launched a consultation on a Draft Glasgow Commonwealth Games Bill . The consultation sets out their plans to deal with ambush marketing, but points out that intellectual property is a reserved issue under the Scotland Act 1998 and therefore any provisions will need to be delivered by the UK Government.

We have had initial discussions with the Scottish Executive as to what new intellectual property provisions might be needed to prevent ambush marketing if they win their bid to host for Commonwealth Games in 2014. But we would welcome any comments that might aid our further discussions with them to develop relevant intellectual property provisions.

Please e-mail any comments to policy@ipo.gov.uk by the closing date (21 September) for the consultation on the Draft Glasgow Commonwealth Games Bill.