Transactional Work
A large portion of CAS-IP’s day-to-day work involves assissting CGIAR centres and stakeholders in transactional work. This includes undertaking the follow activities:
- Reviewing various type of legal documents such as collaborative agreements and licensing contracts
- Drafting and providing feedback to legal documents
- Representing centres and stakeholders in negotiations and meetings
- Advising on strategic IP management and technology transfer issues for the benefit of CGIAR centres and stakeholders
- Enabling/Facilitating peer information exchange through appropriate legal instruments and mechanisms
Some examples of this kind of work currently taking place include:
Enola Bean Case Study
CIMBAA
Our transactional experiences above provide the basis of our advice to centres, training programmes and inform our other research areas. The CAS-IP team members also regularly visit centres to meet with staff and discuss any IP/TT issues face-to-face. Centres are encouraged to contact CAS-IP whenever they have any ad-hoc IP/TT query.
