1. Intellectual Property Rights Panel IPR Membership: Nicolas Dittert, U Bremen Nicolas Metzl, U Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris Are Olsen, U Bergen Reiner Schlitzer AWI (chair)

2. Role of the IPR Panel: Foster collaboration and data sharing between Carboocean partners by helping to create a working environment of trust and fairness. by protecting intellectual property rights of data originators and modelers. by helping to resolve intellectual property rights conflicts.

3. Rules: 1.Usage of published data compilations (e.g., GLODAP, CARINA) Cite the dataset reference.Cite the dataset reference.

4. 2.Usage of Carboocean datasets „cruise-by-cruise“ Inform the data originator that you are using his/her data.Inform the data originator that you are using his/her data. Contact the data originator before submitting any manuscript, or abstract of a talk or poster that uses the data.Contact the data originator before submitting any manuscript, or abstract of a talk or poster that uses the data.

5. 3. Usage of globally integrated datasets (global flux estimates, use in forward and inverse models) Co-authorship inappropriate (30+ authors) Acknowledgements Acknowledgements as list of PI names as list of PI names reference to „Carboocean Group“ reference to „Carboocean Group“