management and be incorporated into the final versions Development of a More specifically, the commercialization; and of the two guides. roster of experts project aims to that will be able to supplement the existing (iii) Improved legal status portal A roster of experts from different act as resources TISC services by with greater user-friendliness and geographical regions who will be able persons to support adding new services expanded content on how to get to act as resource persons to support national TISC and tools to those information regarding legal status national TISC networks in using the networks in using currently provided and in different jurisdictions. two guides has been developed. The the guides on which are of real-life roster initially included the lead and identifying and practical benefit associate subject matter experts who using inventions in particularly to individual drafted the guides and the country the public domain innovators and experts selected to pilot the guides. It and in developing enterprises in will be expanded as new TISCs are new services in developing and least being trained and develop skills for this area. developed countries supporting the identification and use (LDCs), allowing them of inventions in the public domain. Development of an to not only identify improved version inventions in the public An improved version of the legal of the legal status domain, but also to status portal with the objective to portal, including a support inventors, make it more user-friendly and to more user-friendly researchers and provide new and updated information interface as well entrepreneurs in using and links on patent registers and legal as updated and this information to status related information will be new content and generate new research finalized by mid-2018. The Portal will functionalities. The outputs and products have a new interface and interactive portal is expected and thereby map, updated and new content, and to be completed contributing to a more help pages for over 170 jurisdictions and launched by effective exploitation and patent information collections. mid-2018. and use of inventions in the public domain, as a source for the generation of local knowledge and innovation and increasing the
More specifically, the project aims to supplement the existing TISC services by adding new services and tools to those currently provided and which are of real-life practical benefit particularly to individual innovators and enterprises in developing and least developed countries (LDCs), allowing them to not only identify inventions in the public domain, but also to support inventors, researchers and entrepreneurs in using this information to generate new research outputs and products and thereby contributing to a more effective exploitation and use of inventions in the public domain, as a source for the generation of local knowledge and innovation and increasing the management and commercialization; and (iii) Improved legal status portal with greater user-friendliness and expanded content on how to get information regarding legal status in different jurisdictions. be incorporated into the final versions of the two guides. A roster of experts from different geographical regions who will be able to act as resource persons to support national TISC networks in using the two guides has been developed. The roster initially included the lead and associate subject matter experts who drafted the guides and the country experts selected to pilot the guides. It will be expanded as new TISCs are being trained and develop skills for supporting the identification and use of inventions in the public domain. An improved version of the legal status portal with the objective to make it more user-friendly and to provide new and updated information and links on patent registers and legal status related information will be finalized by mid-2018. The Portal will have a new interface and interactive map, updated and new content, and help pages for over 170 jurisdictions and patent information collections. Development of a roster of experts that will be able to act as resources persons to support national TISC networks in using the guides on identifying and using inventions in the public domain and in developing new services in this area. Development of an improved version of the legal status portal, including a more user-friendly interface as well as updated and new content and functionalities. The portal is expected to be completed and launched by mid-2018.