Poster prepared by ILRI, October 2016

1. The IP & Legal Unit
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October 2016
October 2016Basic Intellectual Property (IP) Conditions for Research Agreements
ILRI is bound by the CGIAR Principles on the Management of Intellectual Assets
("CGIAR IA Principles") and adheres to the principles of global access for all its R&D
activities.
Contract terms acceptable to ILRI for ownership of IAs
 IAs are owned by ILRI; or
 IAs are jointly owned on the basis that ILRI may use the IAs with no need for prior
approval from the research partners; or
 IAs are owned by the partner(s) on the basis that ILRI has a non-exclusive, royalty-free
unlimited sub licensable license to use and disseminate the IAs freely with no need for
prior approval from the partners;
If a transaction involves granting of exclusivity over ILRI IAs, it can only be a
Limited Exclusivity Agreement under the CGIAR IA Principles and:
 the transaction must be notified by ILRI to the CGIAR System Office (CSO);
 the exclusivity must be the minimum (duration, geographical cover, field of use) exclusivity
that could be agreed;
 ILRI must inform the CSO about the grounds for granting the Limited Exclusivity,
known as "Justifications";
 ILRI is required to make publicly available key information regarding the transaction;
 The CSO will also make key information public, and include information in its Annual IP
Report.
Patent Protection
If there are likely to be any protectable results arising out of ILRIs research with
partners, the IA Principles allow for IP protection such as patents as long as the main
reason for patenting is to ensure global availability of the products.