Program

09.30 – 10.00 Introduction into the issues by WIPO
  • Antony Taubman, Acting Director and Head, Global IP Issues Division, WIPO [PDF]
10.00 – 10.30 Framing a national policy for managing intellectual property rights resulting from publicly financed research
  • McLean Sibanda, Senior Patent Attorney, National Research Foundation, Pretoria, South Africa [PDF] [PDF]
10.30 – 11.00 Public interest intellectual property management and freedom of research
  • Wolf-Michael Catenhusen, Former State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin, Germany [PDF]
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.00 The policy guidelines on intellectual property of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
  • Decio M. Ripandelli, Director, Administration and External Relations, Secretary of the ICGEB Board of Governors, ICGEB, Trieste, Italy [PDF] [PDF]
12.00 – 12.30 Discussion
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.00 Intellectual property management policy in public health research
  • Raimundo Ubieta Gómez, Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Havana, Cuba [PDF]
  • Jack Spiegel (retired), Senior Advisor for Technology Transfer Operations, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institute of Health, USA [PDF] [PDF]
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 16.00 Drug development through public private partnerships (PPP)
  • Janis K. Lazdins, Leader, Drug Development and Evaluation for Helminths and other Neglected Tropical Diseases, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland [PDF]
16.00 – 17.00 An appropriate strategy for managing existing and developed intellectual property rights
  • Sylvie Fonteilles-Drabek, The Medicines for Malaria Venture, Geneva, Switzerland [PDF]
  • Jean-Pierre Paccaud, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Geneva, Switzerland [PDF] [PDF]
17.00 – 17.30 Discussion

Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

E-Newsletter

add this