Access to Knowledge and Technologies, IP and Strategies for Green Technologies

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Access to Knowledge and Technologies, IP and
Strategies for Green Technologies

• WIPO ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL IP
  STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT
• Manila, October 2009

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Outline

• Context
• Role of Knowledge and Technology
• Strategies
• Access to free use technologies
• Incentives
• IP based
• Other
• Conclusions

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Context 1
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Context 2
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Context 3
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Role of Knowledge and Technology

• Mitigation
• Civil engineering
• Transport
• Energy supply and use
• Private
• Industry
• Waste management
• Agriculture
• Forestry

• Adaptation
• Water resources
• Coastal defences
• Agriculture
• Healthcare
• Biodiversity

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Strategies 1

• Out of Patent
• Non-patented
• Better use of patent documentation
• Better use of non-patent documentation
• Technology transfer and sustainability
• International Agencies
• Government
• Private Sector

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Strategies 2

• IP based incentives
• Advantages
• Devolves decision
• Protects investment
• Protects commercialisation
• Disadvantages
• Monopoly pricing
• Inhibit further innovation
• Imbalance
• Developed/developing
• Local SME/multinational

• IP based incentives
• Lower fees
• Fast-track processing
• Expand patentability
• Encourage licensing
• Compulsory licensing
• Patent pooling

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Strategies 3

• Non IP based
• Grants
• Publicly funded research
• Tax breaks
• Tax pollution

• Non IP based
• Prizes
• McCains auto prize
• The L prize
• Saltire prize
• Progressive Insurance Automotive prize
• Virgin Earth Challenge
• Grainger Challenge

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Conclusions

• Avoid re-run of academic patent/anti-patent
  debate
• Look at ideas from access to medicines debate
• Prize licence of right
• Standards and pooling
• Compulsory licensing