How will intellectual property issues be managed?
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation requires that, even at the LOI stage, all applicants seriously consider their willingness to submit a full proposal in compliance with the foundation’s proposal guidelines, a portion of which asks for certain information and intentions regarding intellectual property and global access concerns. Specifically, the foundation requires that you agree to use good faith efforts to conduct and manage the research, technologies, information and innovations involved in the Project in a manner that enables (a) the knowledge gained during the Project to be promptly and broadly disseminated, and (b) the intended product(s) to be made available and accessible at reasonable cost to the developing countries of the world. The Foundation refers to this as “Global Access.” Applicants and their collaborators will be required to participate in the creation of a Global Access Strategy in an effort to codify their commitment to achieving the stated scientific and charitab
