PIPRA FAQ
How Can PIPRA Help You?
- Access to Database: The PIPRA database contains information about available patents from member institutions, licensing information, pdf files of the patents and direct links to technology transfer offices for the each intellectual property.
- The database indicates licensing status of technologies, a feature that is currently unavailable in other databases. The database will be useful in identifying technologies that are unlicensed or non-exclusively licensed and therefore available for use in research projects.
- The database may help establish relationships between investigators to facilitate research collaborations and to simplify and expedite the transfer of research materials.
- To gain access to the database and other services, please contact Mary Louise "Mike" Trammell by email at trammell@email.arizona.edu or call (520) 626-7916.
- PIPRA will integrate biological, legal and regulatory considerations to develop, test and share novel enabling technologies such as promoters, selectable markers and gene transfer methods through non-exclusive licenses with member institutions. For example:
- PIPRA in collaboration with the USDA is currently developing plant transformation vectors with high transformation efficiency and maximum freedom to operate.
- Researchers from member institutions are collaborating to produce promoters for control of gene expression.
- PIPRA is developing patent pools by consolidating the patent rights of multiple owners to enable access to technologies such as selectable markers and trait genes.
- Freedom to Operate Analysis (FTO): The analytical service is available to member institutions upon request to PIPRA and its network of legal professionals and corporate partners. The service will allow researchers and technology transfer offices to examine the patent landscape surrounding technologies of interest to investigators to minimize the risk of infringement on the patent rights of others.
How Does PIPRA Affect you?
PIPRA requests its member institutions to include language to reserve rights for humanitarian purposes in future license agreements involving agricultural technologies. Each license agreement is managed on a case-by-case basis. As a member of PIPRA, The University of Arizona reserves the right to include the following license terms at its discretion:
"Notwithstanding other provision of rights granted under this agreement, University hereby reserves an irrevocable, non-exclusive right in the Invention/Germplasm for Humanitarian Purposes. Such Humanitarian Purposes shall expressly exclude the not-for-profit organization and/or the Developing Country, or any individual or organization therein, to export or sell the Germplasm, seed, propagation materials or crops from the Developing Country into a market outside of the Developing Country where a commercial licensee has introduced or will introduce a product embodying the Invention/Germplasm. For avoidance of doubt, not-for-profit organization and/or the Developing Country, or any individual or organization therein, may export the Germplasm, seed, propagation materials or crops from the Developing Country of origin to other Developing Countries and all other countries mutually agreed to by Licensor and Licensee."
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