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Agricultural SMEs and Protection of New Varieties of Plants. Professor Michael Blakeney Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute M.Blakeney@qmipri.org. Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). CG Centre Collections. CIAT –beans, cassava
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Agricultural SMEs and Protection of New Varieties of Plants Professor Michael Blakeney Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute M.Blakeney@qmipri.org
Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
CG Centre Collections • CIAT –beans, cassava • CIMMYT –maize, wheat • CIP –potato and other Andean tubers • ICARDA –legumes, wheat • ICRISAT –pulses, groundnut • IITA –Bamberra groundnut, cassava, banana, cowpea • ILRI –forages • IRRI –rice • WAF (ICRAF) –trees • WARDA -rice
CGIAR Biological Assets • Parent germplasm (individual plant varieties) • biological tools (eg selectable markers to determine transformation of plant cells) • advanced mapping populations, near isogenic lines, introgression lines, mutants, advanced lines from conventional breeding, Inbred lines for hybrids, Transgenic lines • enabling technologies • promoters that are used to control expression of the gene in plants • gene silencing or regulating technologies that can be used to suppress or modify gene expression in plants.
Recommendations on IP Management in the CG System: • Identification of useful assets (IP audits) • Centre IP • Third party IP • Securing ownership of IP by agricultural institutes • Constitutional power to own IP • Contracts with employees • Contracts with visitors • Formulation of IP Policy • Establishment of IP Management Structure • IP audits