Meetings and Events - 2008
2009 2008 2007
CGIAR AGM side event; “Supporting Partnerships”
30th November 2008, CGIAR AGM, Maputo, Mozambique
Experiences from CAS-IP, selected Centres, and CGIAR public partners. Presented by: Victoria Henson-Apollonio, Senior Scientist and Manager of CAS-IP. Peter Munyi, CAS-IP liaison in Nairobi and Chief Legal Officer at ICIPE. Antony Mbayaki, Manager of the Technology Transfer Office, Moi University,Kenya (and a participant in the National Partners Initiative, NPI)
Strategic Workshop on “Intellectual Assets & Technology Transfer”
30th September - 2nd October 2008, Cambridge University, UK
Intellectual property in the context of commitment towards public domain raises some very specific questions - CAS-IP designed a workshop to be able to help answer questions unique to CGIAR senior management. For more information on this series of workshops please visit the CAS at Cambridge page of this website.
Expert Advisory Committee Meeting (EAC)
29th - 30th August 2008, Bioversity HQ, Rome, Italy
This is the 10th annual meeting of the CAS-IP, Expert Advisory Committee. This committee is composed of IP professionals both internal and external to the CG who serve as an advisory board to CAS-IP.
CAS-IP National Partners Initiative Meeting*
July 2nd-5th 2008, Rome, Bioversity, HQ, Italy
2nd Meeting for the CAS-IP National Partners Initiative, a chance for the groups formed in 2007 to reconvene and write new work plans for 2008-2009.
The Annual IP managers/IP Focal Points Meeting
June 30th - July 1st 2008; Rome, Bioversity, HQ, Italy
The Annual IP Managers/Focal Points meeting is an opportunity for CGIAR centres’ IP managers to meet, report on their year’s activities and share problems and solutions with their peers.
CAS-IP Training Programme on Intellectual Property Rights relating to Agriculture
31 March – 1 April 2008; ICRISAT-Patancheru
This 2-day event will provide a basic training programme in IPRs with a focus on agriculture. Topics to be covered will include; IPRs in agriculture, Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, Patent search, Plant Variety Protection (including the Indian legislation), Transfer of Technology, IPRs related to biotechnology and the International Treaty on PGRFA and its developments.
This training is primarily targeted for participants mainly from ICRISAT and its partners located at Patancheru and New Delhi. For more information please contact Mr B. Hanumanth Rao, Lead Administrative Officer, IP Office, ICRISAT, Patancheru, 502 324, India (Tel: 91 040 30713326)
Proposal Writing Workshop for the CAS-IP National Partners Initiative
February 18th-22nd 2008; Serdang, MARDI, HQ, Malaysia
Days 1 & 2 of the workshop participants will learn techniques to write effective proposals and concept notes with the view to increase funding for implementing NPI* activities at the national level. There will also be time available for working on more general NPI activities with the CAS-IP team members and CG partners present.
