This World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) publication was prepared under the direction of Alejandro Roca Campaña (Senior Director, Intellectual Property (IP) for Innovators Department, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector, Olga Spasic (Former Head, Technology Transfer Section, IP for Innovators Department, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector) and Mattias Karlsson Dinnetz (Senior Program Officer, Technology Transfer Section, IP for Innovators Department, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector).
The Primer was developed by LF Life Sciences LLC, driven by its Founder and Principal, Lila Feisee, with the assistance of Frederick Reinhart, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Angela Kujak, JD, Senior Director of Contracts, UCLA, Los Angeles; Emily Loughran; and Lin Sun Hoffman.
The Primer was reviewed and edited by Donna O. Perdue, PhD, JD, of Perdue IP Law APC; Claudia Seitz, Prof. Dr., MA, Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein; and Anindya Sircar, IPR Chair Professor, NALSAR University of Law.
The Primer greatly benefited from insightful reviews provided by WIPO colleagues including Tomoko Miyamoto (Patents and Treaties Law Section), Ryan Shaughnessy (Patents and Treaties Law Section), Mattias Karlsson Dinnetz (Technology Transfer Section), Shakeel Thomas Bhatti (Traditional Knowledge Division) and Olga Kusanova (Technology Transfer Section).
The Primer is complementary to the Licensing Tools for Genetic Resources and Genetic Resource Data, developed by Mattias Karlsson Dinnetz, Olga Spasic, Shakeel Thomas Bhatti and Guillermo Roura Pérez (National Autonomous University of Mexico).
Thanks also go to Charlotte Beauchamp (Head, Publications and Design Section, WIPO) for her invaluable support and advice, Vanessa Harwood for her editorial oversight and the WIPO Design team for the report design.