The SKA is a radio telescope with around one million square metres of collecting area, designed to study the universe with unprecedented speed and sensitivity. Development of the knowledge and technologies to achieve this goal will involve the collaboration of radio astronomy institutes, research and development agencies, and commercial enterprises from around the world. Many of these developments will involve generic technologies with important potential in adjacent markets.

The SKA Science & Engineering Committee 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 contributed or created; and
2) ) provide protection to the inventor and host institution, while allowing this IP property to be used in an unfettered 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 matters are:

AUSTRALIA - Carole Jackson, CSIRO-ATNF (carole.jackson@csiro.au)
CANADA – Kerry Whelan-Seifried, NRC (Kerry.whelan-seifried@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
CHINA – Ms Yu Lu (luyu@cti.ac.cn)
EUROPE - Andy Faulkner, University of Cambridge (ajf@mrao.cam.ac.uk)
JAPAN - tbc
KOREA - tbc
SOUTH AFRICA - Faranah Osman, Business Manager, (fosman@ska.ac.za)
USA - Lynn Baker, Cornell University (lab5@cornell.edu)

The SKA Program Development Office (SPDO) is currently developing an IP strategy document ahead of policies and procedures to capture IP information for the program. To discuss this, contact Phil Crosby at crosby@skatelescope.org

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