Sample Chapters from PIPRA/MIHR Best Practices Handbook for IP Management in Health and Agriculture

BayhDole25 is pleased to provide for download selected chapters from the new PIPRA/MIHR publication: Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices (eds A. Krattiger, RT Mahoney, L Nelsen, et al). MIHR: Oxford, U.K. and PIPRA: Davis, U.S.A., 2007.

BayhDole25’s own Susan Finston contributed the chapter: "Technology Transfer Snapshots from Middle-Income Countries: Creating Socio-Economic Benefits through Innovation." (See attachments to this posting.)

There are also two chapters dealing with The Bayh-Dole Act: “Global Health: Lessons from Bayh-Dole,” by Rachel Nugent and Gerald Keusch, “Echoes of Bayh-Dole? A Survey of IP and Technology Transfer Policies in Emerging and Developing Economies,” by Gregory Graff (See attachments to this posting.)

The entire Best Practices Handbook available for order online at www.ipHandbook.org, and will be available at the launch event scheduled at BIO 2007 in Boston on May 6, 2007. This is a truly groundbreaking publication undertaken jointly by MIHR and PIPRA that will be distributed free of charge to developing countries based on revenues from sale of the book in other markets.”