Meetings and Events - 2009
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External Advisory Committee Meeting (EAC)
12th & 13th December 2009, Bioversity HQ, Rome.
This is the 11th 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. To read more about the EAC group, click HERE.
Annual IP Managers Meeting
11th & 12th December 2009. Bioversity HQ, Rome
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.
The IP Managers and the EAC. December 2009. Photo by Shawn Landersz
Confidentiality Workshop within the Water Efficient Maize for Africa (“WEMA”)
6th & 7th August 2009, CIMMYT, Nairobi, Kenya
D.ssa Francesca Re Manning led a workshop on the meaning and importance of confidentiality and confidential obligations. The two days’ workshop were part of a week training for the Finance, Communication and Human Resources Units within the WEMA project, including CIMMYT. The workshop gave an overview on the theory demonstrating the importance to keep certain information confidential, if patents are sought or if intellectual property protection is not available; it then went on analysing the contractual obligations within the WEMA project. The audience participated in a very animated discussion as to which parties ought to be required to keep information confidential and the means that can be used to make all players understand the importance and use of confidentiality without paralysing the project. The workshop was complemented by Ms Gabriela Wehrle, a Monsanto solicitor working on the WEMA project, who provided some practical tips on how to maintain information confidential. The workshop was very well received; everyone seemed to have understood the importance of confidentiality and its effective use.
For more information on the WEMA project click HERE.
Contracts/IP Workshop for the Internal Audit Group (IAU)
1st & 2nd July 2009, CIMMYT, Mexico
Dr Sean Butler and D.ssa Francesca Re Manning lead a workshop on contractual and intellectual property issues within the CG System to the CG auditors during the Audit Internal Unit Professional Development Week.
The workshop was divided between theoretical presentations and practical analysis of documents to give the auditors some basic legal understanding of the complexities of a variety of transactions, in particular collaboration/research agreements, and public - private - partnerships.
The workshop was very well received and the AIU is in discussion with CAS-IP on how to collaborate together in future to make the audit and hence the help to the centres even more effective than it is now.
Building Communication Skills Workshop & Second Interim NPI Meeting
11th - 17th January 2009, Mombasa, Kenya
The workshop is effectively split into two parts. 1) using and learning techniques to communicate and share knowledge more effectively with the context of improving awareness of IP management issues in national fora, and 2) mid term reporting for the NPI activities.
Click here to download a document produced after the workshop explaining the tools & techniques we covered.
