| PIPRA and MIHR announce the release of our new IP Handbook at BIO 2007 in Boston on May 6. View the press release. For more information on the IP Handbook or to place an order, visit www.IPhandbook.org
The beta version of the PIPRA agricultural IP database is now on-line for public access. Please visit it at: http://pipra.m-cam.com. Over 6600 patents and patent applications from 45 different countries are now searchable by many fields, including licensing status. The data represent the agricultural portfolio of 27 universities and non-profit research institutions.
PIPRA and McGill University’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy have signed an MOU and look forward to future work together. In addition to our members, PIPRA has a broad network of affiliated institutions that provide a strong base for collaborative activities.
To download PIPRA’s inter-institutional Memorandum of Understanding click here.
Humanitarian Use Reservation of Rights Licensing Language
PIPRA's members and our pro bono attorneys at Morrison and Foerster, have collaboratively developed licensing language for a humanitarian use reservation of rights. We welcome comments and queries regarding the language and encourage its widespread adoption among technology transfer professionals.
Membership Expanded to 45 Universities and Non-Profit Institutions in 13 countries
PIPRA's membership continues to grow, both within the United States, and internationally. A full list of PIPRA members and our Memorandum of Understanding can be found on the participants page. PIPRA membership is open to universities and non-profit research institutions. For more information on joining PIPRA, please contact Sara Boettiger by phone (530-754-6725) or email.
Development of Plant Transformation Vector with Maximal FTO
PIPRA is facilitating the design, construction, and testing of a plant transformation vector with maximal freedom-to-operate. PIPRA staff, a working group of leading plant transformation scientists, and PIPRA's pro bono attorneys are working together to create a vector with as many components as possible from the public domain or owned by PIPRA members with known licensing terms. The vector will be distributed on a royalty-free basis for humanitarian uses.
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Current PIPRA Members
PIPRA membership is open to any university and not-for-profit research institution. The institutions mentioned on this page are publicly supporting the initiative. Many others are supportive of PIPRA, and are engaged in a variety of ways with PIPRA’s work. PIPRA members come from agricultural research institutions in many countries. Our membership criteria are designed to encourage a broad, international membership base. There is no membership fee. Member institutions must be not-for-proift, engaged in agricultural research, and agree to the terms in PIPRA’s the Memorandum of Understanding.
Many of PIPRA’s institutional members have active and independent technology transfer programs. PIPRA acts as a resource for these programs, and for public sector agricultural researchers, to facilitate the transfer and adoption of technologies by resource poor farmers. PIPRA also provides IP analysis services, access to a public sector patent information clearinghouse, and connections to an international community. Membership in PIPRA does not prescribe particular IP management practices. Nor does it preclude a research institution from securing external IP management services. In addition to PIPRA’s institutional members, a number of Affiliated Institutions including law firms, IP management organizations and policy “think-tanks” regularly collaborate with PIPRA. These Affiliated Institutions provide services to a diverse client base and view PIPRA’s services and mission to be complementary to their own.
PIPRA’s services and structure are intended to support the missions of its members and affiliates. Where these institutions have active technology transfer offices or offer IP management services, PIPRA supports them through the provision of complementary, not duplicative, services and seeks to engage them in global intellectual property issues important to innovations in developing country agricultural technologies and improved minor crops.
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Arizona State University
- AVRDC: The World Vegetable Center, Taiwan
- Barwale Foundation
- Birla Institute of
Technology, India
- Boyce Thompson Institute
- China Agricultural University, China
- Cornell University
- CIMMYT, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- Fundacion Chile
- Hanoi Agricultural University, Vietnam
- Institute of Agriculture and Food Research and Technology (IRTA), Spain
- Institute of Agricultural Genetics, Vietnam
- Institute of Agricultural Research, Chile
- International Potato Center (CIP), Peru
- Iowa State University
- IRRI, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
- Kansas State University
- Michigan State University
- North Carolina State University
- Ohio State University
- Oregon State University
- Parco Tecnologico Padano, Italy
- Purdue University
- Rutgers University
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- St. Augustine University of Tanzania
- Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
- University of Arizona
- University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, Riverside
- University of Florida
- University of Georgia
- University of Kentucky
- University of Idaho
- Universtiy of Minnesota
- University of Missouri-Columbia
- University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- University of Tennessee
- University of Wisconsin WARF
- Virginia Tech
- Washington State University
PIPRA Memorandum of Understanding
Participating Institution's Office of Technology Transfer
and Intellectual Property Management Office
PIPRA Supporters
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