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May 8, 2009
Major improvements and expansions to the
ipHandbook website have just been launched thanks to a new
collaboration with the
Concept Foundation
and funding by the
Rockefeller Foundation.
The improvements include:
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Special
video presentations,
downloadable with synchronized slides, prepared by the
ipHandbook community. Includes a unique & growing list
of links to other relevant videos.
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An
exclusive list of
distance learning courses,
including one prepared by and for the ipHandbook
community in collaboration with
UNIDO’s e-Biosafety Training Programme
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Follow us on Twitter
for regular updates or use the new
RSS Feeds on selected pages (click
here to read our Twitter strategy).
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Improved
navigation with pull-down menus.
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Integrated
Google translation on each page.
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Improved
search
functions.
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The full
content now shared under a
Creative Commons license.
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An updated
and expanded
Resources
section (more updates to follow soon).
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A vibrant
blog
on current IP topics, including a list of over 60 IP related
blogs by third parties.
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Translation by PIPRA of 31 chapters into
Vietnamese.
Everyone is encouraged to request a royalty-free license to
translate individual chapters or the executive guide into
other languages.
Click here 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:
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Networking features (using LinkedIn),
capitalizing on the Web 2.0 possibilities.
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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.
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An index of relevant statutory protection and
licensing regulations in selected countries.
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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
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 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 and share this message and attachment
with your colleagues. And do stay tuned and follow us on
Twitter to be updated in real-time on new features and
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Source
Anatole Krattiger and the
Editors of
www.ipHandbook.org
Chair, bioDevelopments-International
Institute, ASU and Cornell
University
and bioDevelopments
LLC (International Consultants) |
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