IMPLEMENTATION MANUAL of IP POLICY

IP POLICY IMPLEMENTATION MANUAL

• To implement the IP Policy, an IP Policy Implementation Manual is provided.

• The manual provides detailed guidelines on how each clause of the IP Policy can be effectively implemented taking into account the interest of the organization, its staff and society at large.

• Depends on the IP Policy - can be one single manual or a set of manuals, can be in a bound volume or in loose sheets.

• The manual provides the guidelines, flowchart, forms to be used, sample agreements, and suggestions on how intellectual activities and the ways in securing of IP Rights in an organization may be carried out.
  

WHAT IS AN IP POLICY?

IP POLICY:

A set of internal rules or guide to help administer, manage and monitor the proper management of IP rights so that intellectual activities are carried out in the right direction and in the right environment so as to bring about the desired results.




WHY AN IP POLICY?

• Ensure only novel projects in R & D are carried out (i.e. not re-inventing the wheel)

• Ensure that novel projects in R & D are not infringing third party's right

• Facilitate recording of R & D findings 

• Examine patentability or alternative IP protection

• Determine inventorship and ownership of inventions 

• Determine authorship and ownership of a work

• To clarify the respective legal rights and obligations of employers, employees and third parties