Intellectual Property Awareness Network launches ‘IPAN Guide to the SDGs’

Special Edition for World Intellectual Property Day 2024

On World Intellectual Property Day 2024 on 26 April 2024 and as part of its ‘IP & The SDGs’ programme launch, the Intellectual Property Awareness Network (IPAN) published its milestone report, ‘The IPAN Guide to the SDGs’. The Guide is an exploration of the 17 Global Goals through an IP lens featuring the expert perspectives and recommendations of key partners, members, practitioners and policymakers, all addressing the following question: ‘How does IP intersect with each of the Global Goals, and how might IP be used to advance innovation and creativity towards realising the Goals?’

Throughout March and April, the IPAN Board and Secretariat asked members, partners and IPAN allies to submit their contributions for a specific Goal at this link. IPAN was delighted to receive over 30 contributions and are proud to publish this report on the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day 2024, which you can view and download below. Through this Guide, IPAN aims to bring IP and the SDGs ever closer together and to ensure that developments in intellectual property in the future have sustainability at their core from the outset of policy or project planning, rather than as an afterthought. The Guide also informs IPAN’s programme for 2024, in that it will be used to frame the organisation’s activities and work for the remainder of 2024.

The topics and themes explored in the Guide were considered further at a successful panel event on ‘IP & The SDGs’ welcoming UKIPO, CIPA, academics and vital voices, which was hosted by IPAN and its partners on Zoom in July 2024. For this session, IPAN invited some of our report contributors, all senior leaders working in education, business / entrepreneurship, policy and practice, to share their insights into and expertise on key aspects of the interplay between intellectual property and the Sustainable Development Goals. Organised by the University of Exeter’s Dr Louise Loder (IPAN Secretariat) and moderated by Phoebe Whitlock (IPAN Board Member & UK Delegate to UN Women), the session welcomed John P Ogier, Chair of IPAN; Matthew Cope, Deputy Director, AI, Missions and Technology, Intellectual Property Office UK; Neil Lampert, Deputy CEO of The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys; Dr Janice Denoncourt, Associate Professor of Law, Nottingham Law School; Nisaa Jetha, Global Impact Strategist, Impact-for-SDGs; and Dr Francesca Mazzi, Lecturer in AI, Innovation and Law, Brunel University London.

Download the report from the IPAN website here.
Watch the panel discussion here.

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