[searcabic] FW: ipHandbook of Best Practices Website: Now Improved & Expanded

[SEARCA BIC]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The website for the 'Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices' has improved and expanded features.  This on-line resource offers up-to-date information and strategies for utilizing the power of both intellectual property and the public domain, ideally prepared by and for policy-makers, leaders of public and private sector research, technology transfer professionals, licensing executives, and scientists.

For additional information, please see below an email from Anatole Krattiger and the attached press release.

Best regards,


E-group Moderator
SEARCA Biotechnology Information Center
SEARCA, College 4031, Laguna, PHILIPPINES
Telephone nos. +63 49 536 2290 local 406/169
Telefax no. +63 49 536 4105
URL http://www.bic.searca.org

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From: Anatole Krattiger, bioDevelopments-Int. Institute [no-reply at bioDevelopments.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:23 PM
To: Anatole Krattiger, bioDevelopments-Int. Institute
Subject: ipHandbook of Best Practices Website: Now Improved & Expanded

Dear Colleagues:
Major improvements and expansions to the ipHandbook<http://www.iphandbook.org/> website have just been launched thanks to a new collaboration with the Concept Foundation<http://www.conceptfoundation.org/> and funding by the Rockefeller Foundation<http://www.rockfound.org/>. The improvements include:

 1.  Special video presentations<http://www.iphandbook.org/handbook/globallearning/videos/>, downloadable with synchronized slides, prepared by the ipHandbook community. Includes a unique & growing list of links to other relevant videos.
 2.  An exclusive list of distance learning courses<http://www.iphandbook.org/handbook/globallearning/distance/>, including one prepared by and for the ipHandbook community in collaboration with UNIDO’s<http://binas.unido.org/moodle/> e-Biosafety Training Programme
 3.  Follow us on Twitter<http://twitter.com/iphandbook> for regular updates or use the new RSS Feeds on selected pages (click here to read our Twitter strategy<http://blog.iphandbook.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/iphandbook-twitter-strategy.pdf>).
 4.  Improved navigation with pull-down menus.
 5.  Integrated Google translation on each page.
 6.  Improved search<http://www.iphandbook.org/svc/searchadvanced> functions.
 7.  The full content now shared under a Creative Commons license<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/>.
 8.  An updated and expanded Resources<http://www.iphandbook.org/handbook/resources/> section (more updates to follow soon).
 9.  A vibrant blog<http://blog.iphandbook.org/> on current IP topics, including a list of over 60 IP related blogs by third parties.
 10. Translation by PIPRA of 31 chapters into Vietnamese<http://vietnam.pipra.org/sach-tra-cuu-pipra-shtt.html>. Everyone is encouraged to request a royalty-free license to translate individual chapters or the executive guide into other languages.
Click here<http://blog.iphandbook.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/press-release-iphandbook-online-phase-ii-new.pdf> to download the full press release.
Over the next 6 months, we will gradually update and expand patent search tools, information resources, publications, sample agreements and much more. Most importantly, however, we are aiming at establishing a virtual global network of IP and innovation managers, policymakers, scientists and R&D leaders. We are in the process of developing interactive tools, allowing people from around the world to interact and build a social IP network. Specific features to become available include:
-          Networking features (using LinkedIn), capitalizing on the Web 2.0 possibilities.
-          Discussion boards, including the possibility for users to upload references, comments, upcoming events and links, thus allowing the content to be expanded and remain current.
-          An index of relevant statutory protection and licensing regulations in selected countries.
-          The addition of additional topics and resources, including Wiki-type features on such topics as “knowledge governance” (or what lies beyond IP), “global access strategies” and more.
Concept Foundation<http://www.conceptfoundation.org> is an international not-for-profit organization and one of the oldest Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), having been established under a collaborative agreement with WHO in 1989. It has extensive experience in the development to partnerships with pharmaceutical manufacturers in developing countries and in ensuring access of products of assured quality to lower and middle income countries. MIHR was established by the Rockefeller Foundation<http://rockfound.org/> in 2003. After a period of independent operation in Oxford, UK, it merged its programs with the Concept Foundation and is now a program of the Foundation. Continuing support for MIHR activities is provided by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Please visit www.ipHandbook.org<http://www.ipHandbook.org> and share this message and attachment with your colleagues. And do stay tuned and follow us on Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/ipHandbook> to be updated in real-time on new features and important developments.
Best regards,
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Anatole Krattiger and the Editors of www.ipHandbook.org<http://www.ipHandbook.org>
Chair, bioDevelopments-International Institute, ASU and Cornell University
and bioDevelopments LLC (International Consultants)
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