Welcome to the Licensing Executives Society South Africa

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Welcome to theLicensing Executives SocietySouth
Africa
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Licensing Executives Society

• The Licensing Executives Society of South Africa
  is the South African arm of an international
  association of professionals specializing in
  technology transfer and who are dedicated to the
  creation, promotion and implementation of
  business opportunities through equitable
  technology transfer internationally.

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Licensing Executives Society

• The International Licensing Executives Society
  comprises of more than 30 national and regional
  societies and have in access of 12 000 members
  over the world.

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LES (South Africa) continued

• Two main activities
• Teaching
• Workshops
• Seminars
• Current-affairs meetings
• Knowledge repositories in the forms of web site,
  les Nouvelles, LESI database, etc
• Networking
• Local and international events
• LESI membership directory, etc.

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LES (South Africa) continued

• Nature Objectives
• Non-profit organisation.
• Encourage high professional standards.
• Assist members in improving their skills and
  knowledge.
• Inform public, business and government about
  technology transfer, including licensing.
• Publish latest, most accurate information on the
  subject of licensing.

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So what is licensing?

• Licensing is an arrangement between parties in
  terms of which one party grants certain rights to
  its intellectual property to another party for
  consideration.
• Franchising is a special type of licensing.

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Technology Innovation Agency Bill

• Introduction
• The submission is from an IP commercialisation
  perspective
• LES SA welcomes and supports
• the objectives of the Bill
• the establishment of the TIA
• LES SA proposes consideration of certain issues
• with implications to the commercialisation of IP
• for purposes of clarification.

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Technology Innovation Agency Bill

• Primary Issues to be Considered
• The apparent conflict of interest
• duality of the proposed enabling-and-competing
  nature of the powers, duties and functions of TIA

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Technology Innovation Agency Bill

• Primary Issues - continued
• 2. Scope of the innovations and inventions to be
  dealt with by the TIA
• 2.1 General
• technological nature only?
• intellectual property from publicly financed
  research?
• research and/or development?

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Technology Innovation Agency Bill

• Primary Issues - continued
• 2.2 Intellectual Property Rights From Publicly
  Funded Research Bill
• TIA Bill and the IPRFPFR Bill
• National IP Management Office (NIPMO) vs.
  TIA

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Technology Innovation Agency Bill

• Primary Issues - continued
• 3. Transition from the South African Inventions
  Development Corporation (SAIDCOR) to
  the TIA
• potential transfer of assets (IP IPR)
• deregistration of SAIDCOR in terms of
  Companies Act
• repeal Inventions Development Act (No. 31 of
  1962)

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Technology Innovation Agency Bill

• Primary Issues - continued
• 4. Commercialisation of Inventions Innovations
• development of expertise to protect
  commercialise IP
• caution against mere apportionment, transfer
  decentralisation of RD and IP between
  institutions
• due consideration of
• RD activities
• IP portfolios
• technical, legal commercial expertise

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Technology Innovation Agency Bill

• Certain Definitions
• functions
• innovation
• research and/or development
• invention
• Verb and/or noun usage of innovation and
  invention
• intellectual property

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Technology Innovation Agency Bill

• Definitions - continued
• exploitation
• commercialisation
• technological
• incubation
• diffusion
• publicly funded research

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Technology Innovation Agency Bill

• Other Issues
• Assignment Clause 4(3) and the Patents Act
• Board Members, Chairperson and the Chief
  Executive Officer
• Consecutive Terms

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Technology Innovation Agency Bill

• Conclusion
• LES SA welcomes the broad the Bill and the
  establishment of the TIA
• LES SA proposes consideration of
• Certain issues from an IP commercialisation
  perspective
• Certain definitions and ambiguities
• LES SA would gladly assist with
• finalisation of the Bill
• establishment of TIA.

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Want to know more about

• Visit LES South Africa at
• www.licensing.co.za
• and
• visit LES International at
• www.lesi.org