The SKA is a radio telescope with one million square metres of collecting area, designed to study the universe with unprecedented sensitivity. Development of the knowledge and technologies to achieve this goal involves the collaboration of radio astronomy institutes and companies from around the world. Many of the developments involve generic technologies important to commercial sectors.

The SKA Steering Committee has decided to register the intellectual property contributed to the project or developed for the project, and has established ground rules for collaboration and protection of IP rights among collaborators.The aim is to :
1) inform all interested parties in the SKA about IP that has been created,
2) provide protection to the inventor and host institution, while allowing this IP property to be used in a license-free manner by all SKA signatories to the MOA, for SKA-related development. These ground rules are set out in a Statement of Common Intent on IPR. signed by the partners in SKA MoU-2000.

Local contact people for IP questions are:

Carole Jackson, Australian Consortium (carole.jackson@csiro.au )
Robert Brown, US Consortium (bbrown@astro.cornell.edu)
Lichun Zhu, China (lczhu@bao.ac.cn)
Hal Roey, SETI Institute (hroey@seti.org)
Hendrik Jan Boer, European Consortium/ASTRON (boer@astron.nl)
Tony Battilana, European Consortium/Jodrell Bank (jab@jb.man.ac.uk)

Intellectual Property can be registered by filling in the template and submitting the file to the SKA international project director schilizzi@skatelescope.org

Intellectual Property is registered here.

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