3578 Humanitarian Rights Clauses and Innovation

Sunday, February 20, 2011: 1:30 PM
156 (Washington Convention Center )
Carol Mimura , University of California, Berkeley, CA
Based on the pioneering work of the University of California, Berkeley, Mimura will address how incorporating social impact into considerations around intellectual property rights has opened the door to a broad range of IP-management models that are making it possible for campus researchers — including, notably, synthetic-biology pioneer Jay Keasling — to get the benefits of their work into the developing world through innovative arrangements with commercial partners.