Anatole Krattiger (ed.)

The Centre for the Management of Intellectual Property in Health Research and Development (MIHR) and Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA) developed this instructional guide, "Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices" for policy makers, leaders of public sector, research establishments, technology transfer professionals, licensing executives, and scientists. The guide offers information and strategies for utilising the power of both intellectual property and the public domain.

Intellectual Property Topics:

1. Innovation and IP Management: A Contextual Overview
2. Specific Strategies and Mechanisms for Facilitating Access to Innovation
3. The Policy and Legal Environment for Innovation
4. The IP Toolbox
5. Institutional Policies and Strategies
6. Establishing and Operating Technology Transfer Offices
7. Contracts and Agreements to Support Partnerships
8. Inventors and Inventions
9. Evaluation and Valuation of Technologies
10. Patents and Patenting: Balancing Protection with the Public Domain
11. Technology and Product Licensing
12. Dealmaking and Marketing Technology to Product-Development Partners
13. The Public Sector and Entrepreneurship
14. Freedom to Operate and Risk Management
15. Monitoring, Enforcement, and Resolving Disputes
16. Bioprospecting, Traditional Knowledge, and Benefit Sharing
17. Putting Intellectual Property to Work: Experiences from Around the World
for the Collaborative Development of Agricultural Biotechnology Products in Chile.

According to MIHR and PIPRA, the guide will be distributed free to low- and middle-income countries (subject to availability of funding and sponsorship). Preference will be given to national institutions (both public and private) before international organisations.

Click here to order a print copy of the handbook or access it online through the link below.

SciDev.Net Weekly Update on June 11 - 18 2007; and email from Anatole Krattiger to The Communication Initiative on August 2 2007 and on November 13 2007.