ITTI Overview

1. Franklin Pierce Law Center
International Technology Transfer Institute
ITTI
Overview

2. ITTI Mission
To promote and advance innovation in developing
countries via education and capacity building, at both the
human and institutional levels.

3. ITTI Mission
Focus is on merging public interest, social justice with
training and education in IP management and technology
transfer. Projects geared towards accelerating
innovations in health and agriculture to developing
countries, e.g., vaccines and ag-biotech

4. ITTI Mission
Building and promoting innovation and knowledge-based
economic global development via education, training and
outreach. Continuation of Franklin Pierce tradition of
working with professionals from developing countries.

5. ITTI Project Approaches
•Patent literature mining and analysis
(Patent Landscape and FTO analyses)
•Working with developing countries to
establish or strengthen IP
management/technology transfer offices
•Student involvement on all projects as ITTI
Clinical Course offering.

6. ITTI Patent Analyses
1. Agricultural technologies
2. Vaccines
3. Biofuel

7. ITTI Patent Analyses: Ag-biotech
1. Sweet potato improvement for Sub-Saharan Africa
2. Weevil resistance via genetic engineering
3. CGIAR-based projects (World Bank)
4. Access and distribution accelerated via FTO
analysis
5. Ancillary knowledge: difficulty finding patent info
from Africa … WIPO

8. ITTI Patent Analyses: Vaccines
1. Malaria, SARS, Pandemic Influenza WIPO/WHO
Meeting in Geneva Switzerland
2. HIV vaccine patent landscape: DNA,
protein/peptide, adenoviral vector, prime boost
3. NIH grant application to provide free, on-line
database of HIV-vaccine related patents
documents

9. ITTI Patent Analyses: Biofuel
IP (not only patent analysis) landscape of biomass
resources for biodiesel
Soy, Rape/Canola, Oil Palm, Sunflower, Algae
Patents (and apps.!)
Plant variety protection
FAO germplasm accord
Convention on Biological Diversity

10. ITTI TTO Projects: Colombia

11. ITTI TTO Projects: Colombia
• Building human and institutional IP, tech-transfer
and innovaiton capacities
• Within the context of Colombian national
development
• Team-based approach
• Key contacts in Colombia
• Site visit last November

12. ITTI TTO Projects: Colombia
Project-based approach:
1. Evaluation and assessment of R&D capabilities
and position
2. Identification of products/resources immediately
ready for development
3. Concomitant investment in IP management/tech-
transfer capacities

13. ITTI TTO Projects: Colombia
Project status:
Preparation of concept note/business plan, based
on November meetings and research
Evaluation of short, medium and longer term
objectives and strategies
Identification of resources for R&D consideration,
e.g., floral industry, genetic resources, biodiversity

14. ITTI TTO Projects: Colombia

15. ITTI TTO Projects: Sub-Saharan Africa
Towards a New Alliance for Progress:
Advancing the Research Enterprise in
Sub-Saharan Africa

16. ITTI TTO Projects: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country/region analysis/strategy
West Africa: Nigeria, Ghana
East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Consultation with African IP professionals in
South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria

17. ITTI TTO Projects: Sub-Saharan Africa
Strategic considerations:
Innovative developing countries as starting point
Possible consolidation of talent and resources
Development of appropriate and needed
technologies
Access to patent and scientific information
National/regional innovation, IP, tech-transfer
offices

18. ITTI TTO Projects: Vietnam
Opportunity to work with Vietnamese Academy of
Sciences (VAST) to establish Office of Tech-Transfer
to serve the national needs for innovation
management.
Might serve also as a regional office for Vietnam,
Laos and Cambodia (old French Indochina)

19. ITTI TTO Projects: Vietnam
Strategic considerations:
Innovative developing countries as starting point
Possible consolidation of talent and resources
Development of appropriate and needed
technologies
Access to patent and scientific information
National/regional innovation, IP, tech-transfer
offices

20. Role of National/Regional Innovation, IP
Management, Tech-transfer Offices
Consolidation of human and institutional resources
Coordination of public-sector R&D commercialization
Advancing IP awareness among:
scientists,
administrators and
policy makers
Forging international collaborations and
Fostering international tech-transfer

21. Moral/Ethical/Legal
Obligation?
Moral: Save lives, help the poor, sick, needy.
Ethical: Promote the Rule of Law (from Canon of
Legal Ethics …. Really!)
Legal: TRIPS Articles 66.2 and 67
Strategic Best Interest of U.S.A. (Bruce Lehman)

22. Promotes public interest,
fosters social justice

23. Franklin Pierce Law Center
International Technology Transfer Institute
ITTI
Overview
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