Intellectual Property - By Aimable Twahirwa

Recent article in WIPO Magazine may be of interest:

22 health research institutions in Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Chad, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea established a set of common policies to enable them to share IP services and to become an R&D network. A parallel project was also set up in Colombia in Latin America.

http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2007/06/article_0007.html

“Through this R&D network, central African institutions participating in this initiative are now sharing resources to process patent applications and commercialize research results,”