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Cambodia

Country code:

KH

Flag:

Background of colaboration

Information about funding opportunities for R&D projects:


Name of the programme	Funding organisation	Countries	Research Actions	Limitations
The Enhancing Education Quality Project (EEQP)	The Asian Development Bank and the Royal Government of Cambodia	Cambodia	The Project focuses mainly on education system management and development, teacher professional development, and strengthening secondary education in Cambodia.

Partner search facilities:


Name	Description	Scope	Costs
COMPETENCE- COMprehensive Program to Enhance Technology, Engineering, and ScienNCe Education in Asia	COMPETENCE focuses on rethinking science education by putting it in the context of Sustainable Development, and introduces innovations into the teaching of science, technology, engineering and energy in higher institutions of learning and research and development bodies in Asia and the Pacific to make it a more effective tool to build their knowledge, skills and attitudes for sustainable living.	Universities from Southeast Asian countries and Japan; research institutions in Asia and the Pacific; educational and professional networks; national governments; inter-governmental agencies, and UNESCO Offices Bangkok, Beijing, Phnom Penh, Dhaka and Dili.	Free of charge

Resources of information:


Name	Description	Costs
Information not available

Institutions supporting R&D collaboration:


Name	Description
Department of Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) Cambodia	Helps developing through science and technology policy and education for science and mathematics.

Legal framework for R&D cooperation:


Name of the agreement	Description
7 memorandum of understandings signed between Cambodian and Vietnamese government agencies	The projects comprise Lower SeSan II hydro-electronic project, an iron ore exploration project, a cassava flavour production factory, a refined sugar production factory and a plantation.

General IP info

Categories of IP rights:


Category of IPR	Name of the law	Registration needed	Where to register
Copyright	Law on the Copyright and Related Rights of 2003	no, but may be voluntarily done	Department of Copyright and Related Rights, Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
Patents	Law on Patents, Utility Model Certificates and Industrial Designs of 2003	yes	Department of Intellectual Property at Ministry of Commerce
Utility models	Law on Patents, Utility Model Certificates and Industrial Designs of 2003	yes	Department of Intellectual Property at Ministry of Commerce
Trade marks	Law concerning Marks, Trade Names and Acts of Unfair Competition of the Kingdom of Cambodia of 2002	yes	Department of Intellectual Property at Ministry of Commerce
(Industrial) designs	Law on Patents, Utility Model Certificates and Industrial Designs of 2003	yes	Department of Intellectual Property at Ministry of Commerce
Geographical Indications	not protected	-	-
Know How	not protected	-	-
Plant Breeders Rights	Law on Seed Management and Breeder's Right	yes	Department of Intellectual Property at Ministry of Commerce
Topographies of Semiconductor Products	information not available	-	-

IPRs' databases:


Name of the source	What information can I find?	Language
Trade Mark Search	Allows to search trade marks registered in Cambodia and ASEAN States.	English

Research related limitations and exceptions to IPRs:


Category of IP right	Type of limitation	Description	Relevant regulation
Patents/Utility models/Designs
Patents/Utility models	Limitations of exclusive rights:	Use of articles on aircraft, land vehicles or vessels of other countries which temporarily or accidentally enter the airspace, territory or waters of the Kingdom of Cambodia; Acts done only for experimental purposes relating to a patented invention / utility model Acts performed by any person who in good faith, before the filing of the application on which the patent / utility model certificate granted was using the invention / utility model or was making effective and serious preparations for such use (prior user).	Law on Patents, Utility Model Certificates and Industrial Designs of 2003, Articles 44, 70
Industrial Designs
Topographies of Semiconductor Products
Trade Marks	Information not available
Copyright	The following types of use shall not infringe copyright:	Private reproduction of a published work in a single copy if made by a natural person exclusively for his own personal purposes; Free and private representations made exclusively to a close circle of people such as family or friends; Arrangement to preserve in a library the copy of work for the purpose of conservation or research; Use of work for the purposes of education, which is not for financial gain; Translation of works from Khmer language into the languages of the ethnic minorities or vice versa; Analyses and short quotations justified by the critical, polemical, pedagogical, scientific or informative nature of that work; Broadcasting of press commentary; Dissemination of speeches addresses to the public either entirely or in part, through press release or television broadcasting; Adaptation of comic, style or caricature, based on original work; Reproduction of graphic or plastic work which is situated in the public place.	Law on the Copyright and Related Rights of 2003, Articles 24, 25

IP Office:


Name of the office	Scope of activities
Department of Intellectual Property at Ministry of Commerce

IP treaties & agreements:


Berne Convention	introduces minimum standard of copyright protection	no
Paris Convention	establishes minimum standards of industrial property protection	yes
TRIPS		yes
WIPO conventions		yes
PCT		no
EPC		no
Madrid Protocol	allows registration of trademarks via international route	no
Hague Convention		no
UPOV		no

Ownership rules:


Default (statutory) regime for the ownership	Author / Inventor
Default (statutory) regime for employee’s creations	In relation to patents / utility models certificates / industrial designs: Employer, unless labour agreement provides otherwise.
Ownership of research results in publicly sponsored research	Information not available
Specific ownership rules for public HEIs/research organisations and possibility to modify it contractually	Information not available
Specific ownership regime for students/ visiting researchers/doctoral students and possibility to modify it contractually	Information not available
Related law (name & link)	Law on Patents, Utility Model Certificates and Industrial Designs of 2003, Articles 10, 14, 70, 94

Dissemination rules:


Limitations on publication	None
Specific rules regarding publication of scientific results financed by public bodies	None
Non-disclosure clauses in research contracts	Information not available

Specific incentives for innovation activities:


Related Law (name & Link)	Information not available
Incentives provided by law for individual researchers	Information not available
Related Law (name & Link)	Information not available
Incentives provided by HEI for researcher	Information not available

Form of commercialisation:


Form of commercialisation	Requirements regarding form of contract	Limitations for HEIs	HEIs Unit responsible for commercialisation	Related law (name & link)
Transfer, licence of IPRs	Copyright: Written form (otherwise the contract shall be null and void). Patents / utility model certificates / industrial designs: Written form; any contract shall be submitted to the Registrar, who shall record it and publish a reference thereto, otherwise the contract shall have no effect against third parties.	Information not available	Information not available	Law on the Copyright and Related Rights of 2003, Articles 34, 35 Law on Patents, Utility Model Certificates and Industrial Designs of 2003, Articles 114, 115

Revenue sharing:


Remuneration/ Participation in revenues	Statutory rules regarding remuneration	Statutory rules regarding revenue sharing	Internal HEIs rules regarding revenue sharing	Related law (name & link)
Information not available

Models of contracts used in R&D:


Type of contracts	Short description	Source (link)
Information not available