Intellectual Property Management to Support Innovation Systems: Setting the Site at the Global Level Dr. Victoria Henson-Apollonio IP Consultant & Special Graduate Faculty, University of Guelph Open Access Week, University of Guelph October 21-26, 2012

10/29/20152 Software Gene seq. Methods Germplasm Training Materials Research Tools Data Farming Practices Publications © © ©

Access and USE Attribution, reputation End-use End-users Developers Participatory practices and co-development Meeting needs of the poor Tools to know what we have Why does this matter?

Public Goods Contractual Rights MTAs, Licenses, Agreements IPRsCopyrights Patents, PVP, Trademarks Confidential Information

Examples of Issues? Germplasm – Distribution of public and private materials under SMTA for Annex 1, non-Annex 1 – Exclusivity; Humanitarian use clauses Confidentiality of information/knowledge provided by others – Building confidence to deal with this? – Prior informed consent (PIC) Confidentiality of information/knowledge generated in project – Publication of results – Exclusivity; Humanitarian use

Center seminars NPI Annual Meeting Skills-building Workshop Web-based products Center visits Transactional work System Dynamics Modeling Case studies Stewardship papers License Central MoU template IP Health Check Blog Branding, Marketing

Branding Workshop

Development of Performance Indicators

The International Level

2 nd Yr Law students or LLM students chosen by UofCambridge Centers would indicate a need for some additional legal personnel Internship established Exposure of Law students to IP issues in Agriculture and the notion of Public Goods

The International Level

National Partners Initiative (NPI); An International Society of IP Practitioners Centers and National Partners Skills Building Workshops Annual Mtgs. Case Studies SharePoint materials Compendium Centers and National Partners Skills Building Workshops Annual Mtgs. Case Studies SharePoint materials Compendium

Methodology for Establishing Funding –Proposal development and submission Identification of Participants Identification of Networks that already exist Dedicated staff (full-time and part-time)

Methodology for Capacity Strengthening Network or Community-of-Practice (CoP)? Annual Meeting – Annual workplan development and reporting ‘Open Space’ Facilitation technique Reflection/Review of TT experiences from each office – Competitive grants scheme

Methodology for Capacity Strengthening Annual ‘workplans’ that incorporated ways in which members would contribute to a ‘knowledge’ base and also would benefit from support from the CoP Skills-building workshops – Proposal writing – Communications and Facilitation – Presentation – Negotiations

Results from the Project Participatory CoP 40 participants over a 3-year period Participants all practitioners

Results from the Project 3 Annual Meetings 3 Workshops 15 case studies Database of templates, tools Publication of a compendium covering IP practices in several developing countries Informal Community stills exists after funding ceased in 2010

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Lessons for UoG? Establishing a Community-of-Practice is an effective mechanism for increasing the interest and skill in this area – Could be based on subject areas (e.g. plant breeders), cross- disciplinary (e.g. access to data, results, publications) – Could be based on similar Departments in several universities Prize/competition for most broadly used innovations (‘Yukon Gold’ potato) or ‘Best Practices’ (‘Open Access’ series) University-wide discussion re: the writing of a University- wide IP/TT Policy Statement Involvement of the seed sector. Governmental agencies, universities --in a Seminar series, etc.