Get advice on what you need to consider when you apply for funding, as well as during your grant, and when you commercialise Wellcome-funded Intellectual Property.
Intellectual property guidance
Information about our approach to intellectual property and translation, and related policies. This is for grant applicants, grantholders and research organisations.
Find out what the policy applies to, and what we expect from the researchers and organisations we fund.
What researchers and organisations must do if they want to commercialise Wellcome-funded intellectual property, getting consent and reporting on Wellcome IP-related activities.
Some of the key issues that we expect to see addressed in intellectual property commercialisation agreements.
Find out how we define 'conflict of interest', what we require from researchers and organisations, and what we will do if there has been a breach of our policy.
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Contact our Funding Information Team if you have a question about funding.