An Intellectual Properties Management structure is in place to protect and exploit the intellectual property generated by NeuroStemcell. IP Management will be supported by a Technological Evaluation Panel chaired by Prof. Ernest Arenas and consisting of a representative(s) of the SMEs, an academic PI and an independent IPR consultant with patent law experience to be referred to.
The Technology Evaluation Panel has the responsibility to audit all prospective outputs from the project for potential new intellectual property, ensure protection of all intellectual property generated in the Project, make recommendations on patenting, licensing, exploitation and dissemination and finally consider opportunities for recruiting additional SMEs to the project and/or establishing new SMEs based on the Project results.

Members:
Ernest Arenas (chairman), Oliver Brüstle, Lars Wahlberg, Clara Sattler (Yale University)

Clara Sattler de Sousa e Brito is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School after having worked with the Information Society Project as a Student Fellow during her Master of Laws studies at Yale Law School.
She holds both undergraduate and master degrees in physics, philosophy and psychology as well as in law. In 2003 she worked as an academic researcher in the area of biotechnology. Since 2004 Clara Sattler de Sousa e Brito is a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property (MPI) in Munich, Germany.
At the center of her research are problems in the intersecting areas of law, ethics and modern technologies, especially biotechnology or information & communication technology. The interaction between innovation and social norms, access to knowledge, access to medicine and issues regarding IP in the life sciences (e.g., genomics, proteomics or stem cells) are of specific importance to her.