Courtesy of Jim Houlihan, here are links to useful resources that were mentioned during our meeting.
Patent landscaping in stem cells which sits on the UK stem cell network site – clearly this can be configured on global data sets.
http://www.uknscn.org/downloads/patent_analysis_0811.pdf
Overview of the UK National Stem Cell Network Patent Watch Landscape (pdf)
Manchester’s IP Pool-which is now called the “IP Net”
http://www.theintellectualproperty.net/ -See “browse offers” in particular.
Also I mentioned to some people the “Lambert tool-kit for collaborative research” – this includes a series of contracts for different scenarios and more fundamentally an iterative educational guide.
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/whyuse/research/lambert.htm
Lastly, the European Innovative Medicines Initiative, the world’s largest PPP in healthcare 2B Euro – there’s a section on the IP policy. http://www.imi.europa.eu/content/documents#ip_policy.
Proprietary Challenges in Stem Cell Research 