Online Version of New Handbook on Best Practices for Intellectual Property Management in Health

A new intellectual property handbook featuring chapters by several Franklin Pierce Law Center faculty and alumni is now available online at www.iphandbook.org, offering a unique resource in intellectual property and innovation management.
Entitled Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agriculture Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices, the 2,000 page handbook features tools, strategies and case studies encompassing innovation in health and agriculture to meet the needs of populations in developing countries.

The book includes chapters by faculty members Professor Karl Jorda, Visiting Professor Karen Hersey, Anne McCrackin, Director, Patent Practice and Procedure Program (JD '97) at Pierce Law, and Dr. Stanley Kowalski (JD '05), scholar in residence at Pierce Law, as well as alumni Hua Guo (MIP '06) of Shanghai, China, and Suzanne Somersalo (MIP '02) of Silver Spring, MD.

The book was co-published by the Public Intellectual Property Resources for Agriculture (PIPRA) and the Centre for the Management of Intellectual Property in Health Research and Development (MIHR).

According to Dr. Alan Bennett, executive director of PIPRA and handbook editor, "It answers the question, "How can public sector entities best fulfill their mission to bring their innovations to both the world's affluent and disadvantaged alike?'"