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PIPRA

Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA) is a nonprofit organization formed in 2001 and funded by the Rockefeller and McKnight Foundations to further the goals of food security and sustainable agriculture programs worldwide. The primary objective of PIPRA is to address intellectual property (IP) issues surrounding research and to enable access to agricultural technology for research, commercial use, economic development, specialty crops and humanitarian purposes. (PIPRA website)

PIPRA is housed at the University of California Davis campus under the direction of Dr. Alan Bennett, Executive Director of PIPRA and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Davis.

Purpose

Identify Intellectual Property Issues

• Inaccessibility to key research tools such as Agrobacterium mediated transformations, selectable markers and promoters.
• Freedom to operate (FTO) blocked by exclusive licenses
• Fragmentation of available IP across research organizations

Establish PIPRA Solutions

• Collective management of IP through the PIPRA database, which is accessible to researchers at member institutions
• Consolidation of IP rights
• Freedom to operate analyses
• Encouraging research collaborations
• Improving licensing practices

Additional PIPRA Information

• How Can PIPRA Help You?
• How Does PIPRA Affect You?
• PIPRA Activities
• University of Arizona PIPRA Contact: Mary Louise ("Mike") Trammell (520) 626-7916

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