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Science, Intellectual Property and Openness

Sponsored by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

4 July 2006

Please note, this research programme has now concluded and these pages are maintained here as a record of the activities of the Institute for Advanced Studies.

Organizer: Professor Christopher May (Lancaster University)

This day was intended for scientists and others interested in how the intellectual property system interacts with their work, and especially those who are concerned with the understanding current debates about the balance between openness and property in science (and other research arenas).

The context: what is intellectual property and how is it related to science?

1. Christopher May (Lancaster) – a brief guide to IPRs and their history
2. Graham Dutfield (QMUL) – IPRs in the life sciences
3. Paul Oldham (CESAGen) – IPRS and genomics

Industry Perspectives

1. Richard Summersell (Patent Officer, AstraZeneca)
2. Martin Richardson (Oxford Journals)
3. Roderick O’Brien (Lancaster University IP Office)

The Possibility of Openness:

1. Igansi Labastida I Juan (University of Barcelona/Creative Commons
2. Robert Terry (Wellcome Trust)
3. Mark Patterson (Public Library of Science)

Between Property and Openness: closing discussion

1. Keith Root (the Royal Society)
2. Christopher May (Lancaster University)

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