institutional iPs

1. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR COLLECTING IPS
Bosco Bua,
Kyambogo University

2. Vision: To be a Centre of Academic and
Professional Excellence
Mandate: Act of parliament instrument No. 37
of Universities and other tertiary institutions
2001
Mission: To advance and promote knowledge
and development of Skills in science, technology
and education and such other fields having
regard to quality, equity, progress and
transformation of society
Motto: Knowledge and Skills for Service

3. Research
Community
outreach
Teaching
 missing out on the
opportunities to
become centres for
pioneering
discoveries,
 innovations
 inventions

4. Institutional IP policy can be used to establish an
equitable basis for
 Resolving issues related to ownership,
Disclosure,
Sharing/equitable distribution of income
Protection

5. Legal Framework (National IP)
Purpose
Guiding principles
Scope
Focus
Objectives
Governance
Implementation
Financing mechanisms
Monitoring and Evaluation
Review

6. Copyright
Protects the expression of
ideas not the ideas ie work
of authorships.
E.g music, paintings,
cinematography, poems,
novels, art works &
Related rights ( (musicians
and the singers
the producer of the sound
recording (phonogram)
the organization that
broadcasts a program
containing the song
Industrial
property
Patents,
Trademarks,
Geographic
indications,
Trade secrets
Utility models
Industrial
designs
Plant variety
protection
TK & TCEs

7. Plant variety
Protection
• Breeders right
• Granted based on Distinctiveness, uniformity and stability
• Novelty
Patents
• Exclusive rights to
• i) a product or
• ii) process that provides a new way of doing something
• iii) offers a new technical solution to a problem
• a patent is granted in exchange for the disclosure of the patentable invention to the public
Trade secrets
• allows a holder of confidential information to prevent that information from being
• disclosed to
• acquired by or
• used by others without the holder’s consent in a manner contrary to honest commercial practices
Trade marks
• Trademarks/brand distinguish goods or services of one provider from the other providers
• a)Collective Mark
• b)Certification Mark
Geographical
indication
• Sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are essentially due to that origin
• Protected Designation of Origin (PDO- Appellation of origin)
• Protected geographical indication
Ulitity models
• Is similar to patents because it provides exclusive rights for an invention
• Requirements less stringent
• Qualify for a certificate if it is new and industrially applicable

8. DURATION OF IPR
1.Patent lasts up to 20 years
2.Trademark is renewable every 10 years,
forever…..
3.Copyright is 70 years after the death of the
author
4.Designs is renewable every 5 x 5 years
5.Utility models lasts 10 years

9. Governance and management
University Council
Faculties Faculties Faculties
Senate

11. IP applications in Uganda

12. ARIPO
WIPO

14. 1. Balancing protection with public access, knowledge, medicine
and safety
2. Inadequate Stakeholders alliance
3. Limited awareness about IP
4. Most of the work is not protected by IPR eg, ITK on
conservation and use of genetic resources
5. Limited understanding of ABS of the CBD
6. Over exploitation and neglect of underutilize species (NUS)
7. Weak infrastructure to support innovation and creativity
8. Inadequate human capital development for the IP value chain
9. Inadequate utilization of the IP system

15. Way forward