Toolkit to support effective management of IP

UK Intellectual Property Office released a set of model agreements, called Toolkit to accelerate cooperation between industry and academia of India and UK. The toolkit is adopted from Lambert Toolkit and is the result of work by Christine Red and Sunita K Sreedharan with inputs from several stakeholders in 2 round table discussions held in New Delhi.
The Toolkit consists of:

• a Model Research Collaboration Agreement 1A under under which an Indian Institute owns the Intellectual Property Rights in the Results of the collaboration and grants either a non-exclusive licence or an exclusive licence to a company (Sponsor) in the UK;

• a Model Research Collaboration Agreement 1B under under which a UK University owns the Intellectual Property Rights in the Results of the collaboration and grants either a non-exclusive licence or an exclusive licence to a company (Sponsor) in India;

• a Model Research Collaboration Agreement 2A under under which a UK company (Sponsor) owns the Intellectual Property Rights in the Results of the collaboration and grants an Indian Institute a right to use those results for academic purposes;

• a Model Research Collaboration Agreement 2B under under which an Indian company (Sponsor) owns the Intellectual Property Rights in the Results of the collaboration and grants a University in the UK a right to use those results for academic purposes.

For details , contact:

 Anshika Jha, Senior Intellectual Property Liaison Officer, UK Intellectual Property Office, British High Commission, Shantipath, Chanakyapuri,| New Delhi - 110021 | Email: anshika.jha@fco.gov.uk | Tel: +91 11 2419 2166 | FTN: 8414 2166 | Fax: +91 11 2467 0234 |