Intellectual Property Conference 2013
The National IP Management Office ("NIPMO"), an agency of the Department of Science and Technology, together with The Companies and IP Commission ("CIPC") of South Africa invite you to participate as a sponsor to support a transformative non-profit conference focusing on "Creating and Leveraging Intellectual Property in Developing Countries: A Power Tool for Social and Economic Growth."
Conference Objectives
NIPMO (an implementation office of the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development, Act no. 51 of 2008 (IPR-PFRD Act)) and CIPC (responsible for administering Intellectual Property (IP) legislation and compliance including IP registration and maintenance thereof), seek to:
•Promote a positive IP culture and IP capacity building in Africa.
•Increase awareness of the economic and social value of domestically-created IP in Africa and other BRICS countries and developing countries.
•Celebrate and foster inventor ship in Africa.
•Stimulate technology transfer.
•Create a forum for international IP specialists and innovation specialists to share best practices.
•Build new global relationships to foster business opportunities.
•Facilitate the exchange of knowledge and best practices in promoting IP commercialisation opportunities for public and private sector in the developing world context (BRICS and the African continent emphasis).
•Infuse the developing world perspective on IP management from a continental view.
•Set a pace on managing structural issues that impact IP commercialisation in the developing world.
•Identify and highlight the key challenges to IP commercialisation in the continent (especially South Africa).
•Explore policy options to improve IP commercialisation.
Conference Topics
Topics that will be addressed at the conference include:
•The need to transition from a resource based to knowledge based economy.
•A model for leveraging IP in Developing countries.
•The effect of the national patent system on the perceived investment value of a patent.
•Financing the creation and development of domestic IP in developing countries.
•Leveraging available IP at corporations and institutions to jumpstart new ventures in developing economies.
•Comparative IP legal frameworks in developing countries and effect on business confidence in new IP ventures.
•Leveraging technology transfer in developing countries to assist with inventing and entrepreneurship.
•Recent global patent cases and their implications.
•Building an entrepreneurial management team.
•Communicating IP issues effectively.
•Pharmaceutical and Biotech IP: What does it take to succeed.
•Computer and Software IP: Global trends and opportunities.
•What can governments do to stimulate inventing and entrepreneurship?
•Towards global uniformity of standards for patent and regulatory approvals.
•Leveraging the value of charitable IP pools to create domestic IP and companies.
•Assessment of Technologies as a basis for business start up
•Leveraging Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources for improved economic value.
•African Innovation Parks: Success and Challenges.
•Can Access and patents co-exist in the developing world and where is the right line?
•IP as a business model (How Sasol and other companies built and leveraged IP)
Time: 08:00 - 20:00
Venue: Southern Sun Elangeni, Durban