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>[26.Jun.08] General
- New Rules for Intellectual Property in Projects Funded
by CNPq
Source: Infomail ABREU, MERKL no. 20
The
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
(CNPq), a Brazilian governmental agency, announced a
new Normative Resolution regulating intellectual property
originated from projects which receive its financial
aids or scholarships from said agency.
CNPq was founded in 1951
and plays a very important role in the Brazilian research,
specially through funding of human resources, managing
a total annual budget of one billion reais (about USD
600 millions). Its activities include scholarships for
Brazilian researchers developing researches abroad,
and foreign researchers developing researches in Brazil.
The new Resolution,
RN 13/2008 published on 27.May.2008, revokes RN 14/1998
and intends to harmonize the intellectual property regulation
to the Innovation Law (Law no. 10.973/2004). Basically,
the Resolution provides that the parties involved in
projects integrally or partially funded by CNPq will
have to define, according to their internal rules and
the federal law (innovation and intellectual property
laws), the ownership or co-ownership of the intellectual
property originated. In any case, CNPq, as the funding
agency, will have the right to receive up to 3% (three
per cent) in any assignment or licensing of the intellectual
property derived from the project.
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