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PIIPA December 2017 NewsletterContents:

PIIPA 2017 End of Year Message

PIIPA 2017 Projects' Highlights

PIIPA 2017 Pro Bono Matchmaking Highlight

PIIPA 2017 End of Year Message

2017 has been a busy and productive year for PIIPA with innovative

work that reflects the evolution of global public interest IP. The overall

trend appears to indicate new questions arising from technological

advances in global contexts and more specialized inquiries into the

practical application of IP in communities' economic development.

From an organizational perspective, as already shared, PIIPA lost its

beloved and charismatic Co-Founder and longtime Chair of the Board

of Directors, Michael Gollin. He will be dearly remembered and his

bright spirit will remain a guiding light for the PIIPA community of IP

creators and IP experts.

2018 already has a couple of interesting projects lining up, but as

usual, which new global public interest IP issues will knock on PIIPA's

remain unknown.



for Africa

World HealthOrganizationDepartment of PublicHealth, Innovation andIntellectual Property(PHI)

The World Bank GlobalForum on Law, Justice,and Development

United States Patent &Trademark Office

Organization ofAmerican States

Canadian InternationalDevelopment Agency

Conference Board ofCanada

SMEToolkit.org

Centro Internacional deAgricultura Tropical(CIAT)

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Thank you for your continued love and support of PIIPA's work, towhich some of you may be called upon to contribute, and lookingforward to another year of world and community changingcollaborative efforts.

Pacyinz Lyfoung, PIIPA Executive Director

2017 PIIPA Projects' Highlights

WRI (World Resource Institute)/USDA Wood IdentificationTechnologies and IP Project

PIIPA completed an internal research and analysis report on globalpublic interest IP tools that would facilitate and scale up thedevelopment of wood identification technologies intended to assist incurbing illegal logging and related trade.

PIIPA IP Corps Members Donna Perdue and Jimena Maria SolarAlvarez, alongside with Jost Kotthoff, Anna Dold and Daniel Albaglifrom White&Case, and with Qian Liu, Lanny Lee and other colleaguesfrom HFG Law and IP-Shanghai Office contributed legal research andanalysis.

Key findings were shared at the Global Timber Tracking Network(GTTN) meeting, at the end of the 2017 WRI Forest Legality Week inmid-October in DC.

Two publications are currently being explored out of that report.



Pacyinz Lyfoung presenting at the GTTN meeting, at the 2017 WRILegality Week in October.

Harisoa Ravaomanalina, Wood Anatomy scientist from Madagascar,and Pacyinz Lyfoung.

Greenland IP Project

Kisserup International, Inc,, a longtime PIIPA partner, invited PIIPA to



collaborate on IP needs assessment and trainings in Greenland.Workshops on Basic IP Issues and Traditional Knowledge wereoffered in Nuuk, Illulissat, and Kangerlussuaq.

Nuuk Basic IP Workshop for SMEs in September.

Ilulissat Basic IP Workshop in September.



Kangerlussuaq Traditional Knowledge Workshop in November.

2017 Pro Bono Matchmaking Highlight

PIIPA relies on the PIIPA IP Corps estimated at 3,500 IP expertslocated in 50 different countries.

In 2017, the PIIPA Pro Bono Matchmaking program continued to findrelevant IP experts among the IP Corps to take on several worthycases benefiting developing countries and their communities.

One highlight would be the collaboration with Bio Ventures for GlobalHealth which referred one of their members, Mahidol University inThailand, for pro bono IP assistance. PIIPA was pleased to find agreat match with a team of volunteers from Foley-Hoag-Boston. ThisIP project will help bring to market an improvement for malariatreatment, from a collaboration between Mahidol University with aglobal pharmaceutical company.

We want to thank all the PIIPA IP Corps members for joining ourvolunteer network and standing by, ready to take on pro bono cases.You have been the backbone of PIIPA's work, whether taking oncases or advising PIIPA.

We also want to thank PIIPA's many friends and supporters who lovePIIPA from far away. Just remember, you are not strangers and arealways welcome to actively engage in PIIPA's activities. As any NGO,PIIPA needs the talent and goodwill of its friends and supporters tokeep going.



PIIPA is always looking for more IP Corps members, if you knowsomeone who might be interested, please forward this newsletter andinvite them to register on the PIIPA website. WISHING YOU ALL HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND MAY THE NEW YEAR

BRING YOU GREAT SUCCESS!

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