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FOI2022-00176: Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court application

This request was refused in part, so we didn't provide some of the information the requester asked for. This may include information where we can neither confirm nor deny that we hold it.

Case reference FOI2022/00176

Published 11 November 2022

Request

Request Received: 11 May 2022

I would like to have access to the research funding application for the research project 'Assessing the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court', as well as to all communications between the funding body and the research project's people.

I am placing this request under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. If some parts of the requested information cannot be disclosed due to legal reasons, the remaining parts of the relevant document(s) can still be communicated to me. ---

Clarification: 30 May

First, I am not seeking information about communications that do not relate to the research project: 'Assessing the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court'.

Second, as you specify since the application for funding was made in March 2014, the request for information regards: a) the content of that application; b) all communications that followed from the moment that application was submitted until the completion of the project in June 2016, and c) all communications that the funding body had with the research project's people from the end of the project in June 2016 onwards.

For example, this could be to check the implementation of certain post-completion requirements for which the research fund was provided, e.g. a requirement to disseminate the promised research results on the basis of open access. Please note that I am not seeking access to post-completion (June 2016-onwards) communications that have to do with any remaining research funding payment and, in general, purely logistical information about transferring of funds to bank accounts, etc., is not part of the scope of my FIA request.

Response

Response Sent: 21 July 2022

Full details of this response are provided in the attached documents.

Documents

• FOI2022 00176 ESM0062391 _Redacted.pdf (77.5 KB)
• FOI2022-00176 ESRC Key Findings (reminder)_Redacted.pdf (131.4 KB)
• FOI2022-00176 Grant Offer Letter_Redacted.pdf (224.8 KB)
• FOI2022-00176 Key Findings- Accepted ES M006239 1_Redacted.pdf (195.3 KB)
• FOI2022-00176 RE Workshop April & Extension Request_1_Redacted.pdf (75.8 KB)
• FOI2022-00176 RE Workshop April & Extension Request_Redacted.pdf (150.9 KB)
• FOI2022-00176 Siebel communications_Redacted.pdf (502.2 KB)
• FOI_Response_Letter_FOI2022_00176_Redacted.pdf (265.6 KB)

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