CAS @ Cambridge

CAS @ Cambridge

CAS and the University of Cambridge have been working together since 2003.  The close relationship with St Edmund’s college began with the Legal Internship Programme that has brought on-the-ground legal support to several CGIAR centres over the years.

Legal Interns

Visit the Intern Programme pages for more infomation.

Strategic Workshops/Training

In addition, CAS and Cambridge University have been working on a series of targeted workshops.  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. 

Below is a brief introduction to this series of strategic workshops.

 

The 2009 workshop will take place in December in Rome, exact dates TBC.  The workshop will be delivered by Dr Sean Butler of the University of Cambridge (Honorary Research Fellow of CAS-IP).  Sean has worked with CAS-IP for many years, teaches law at Cambridge and is a UK-qualified lawyer.  He is also a social scientist, his field being intellectual assets and technology transfer between public and private sectors.

You can view the 2008 agenda HERE.  The 2009 workshop will be available shortly.

For more information or to reserve your place CONTACT US

Other training events we have run in the past include:

November 2008
Series of lectures and seminars on IP issues delivered at ICARDA in Syria.

September/October 2008
Executive workshop on strategic IP issues delivered at Cambridge University, UK.

March/April 2008
Training programme on Intellectual Property Rights relating to agriculture, delivered at ICRISAT in India.

October 2007
Plant Variety Rights (PVR) Seminar delivered at ICARDA in Syria.

Please click here to view the playback of some of these seminars.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Intellectual property rights are confined to the jurisdictions where they are granted. At present CGIAR Centres are based in fifteen different countries and CGIAR scientists and staff are working in over 100 countries, each of them with its own set of national laws in the area of intellectual property. This section does not pretend to cover information from each and every country where the CGIAR is present. The information in this section is general in nature and provides a useful perspective on intellectual property and technology transfer practices worldwide. It does not however, represent CGIAR policy and should not be interpreted as such.

Frequently Asked Questions About:

Patents

What is a patent?
What is the rationale of a patent system?
Is there a “worldwide” patent?
What can be patented?
What types of patents are there?
Who is an inventor - Is every researcher an inventor?
What is a research exemption? - Is there a research exemption?
Why be concerned with other people’s patents?
Why conduct patent searches?
What is defensive publishing?
What is Freedom to Operate (FTO)?

Access & Benefit Sharing

What are Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regimes?
When do ABS rules apply?
What biological materials are covered by ABS?
What are the benefits seek in these regimes?

Copyrights

What is Copyright? What are Author’s Rights?
What are the set of rights enclosed by Copyrights and Author’s Rights?
What is covered by Copyrights/Author’s Rights?
How do I obtain a Copyright/Author’s Rights on a work?
What is a Copyright notice?
What are registered Copyrights?
How long does Copyright last?
What is the Public Domain?
Why be concerned with other people’s Copyrights?
How to determine if it is copyrighted?
Can I use something that is copyrighted?
How do you retain rights when assigning copyright to a publisher?

Trademarks

What is a trademark? What is a service mark?
What is a certification mark? What is a collective mark?
What are Geographical Indications, Appellations of Origin and Indication of Source?
What is a trade secret?

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Central Advisory Service for Intellectual Property

CAS-IP assists, supports, facilitates, and secures access to intellectual assets as public goods in agriculture for development.

[Read what CAS-IP does to achieve this…..]


 

Latest news from the CAS-IP blog;

Hand-picked news items from around the world with comments and interpretations from the CAS-IP team of specialists.

[link to the CAS team page]

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