Jane Payumo, Ph.D.
Jane G. Payumo, a Washington State University alumnus, is a Postdoctoral Research Associate of the Office of Research and serve as Licensing Assistant at the Office of the Intellectual Property Administration (OIPA) and WSU Research Foundation.
Her postdoctoral work involves analysis of issues related to intellectual property rights (i.e. impact to farmers, relationship with green innovations and climate change, responses of scientific community, among others). She is also actively involved in data management, patent prosecution, licensing agreement negotiations, marketing of life-sciences and agricultural technologies of WSU, analyzing different case studies to generate policy papers related to IP management and technology transfer, and helping develop research grants on capacity building initiatives to promote better understanding of the concept of IP to WSU students and employees, and other institutions.
Ms. Payumo while doing her Doctor of Philosophy on Interdisciplinary Studies (major fields: Molecular Biosciences, Economics, and Rural Sociology) at WSU, worked as graduate research assistant for Dr. Howard Grimes, the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, her major research adviser. She conducted several researches that analyzed the intricacies and consequences of the expansion of IPR to agriculture – the backbone of economy of majority of developing countries; and determined how public agricultural research institutions in developing countries have responded to IPR and its developments.
Ms. Payumo is originally from Philippines and worked as an IP specialist, where she managed the IP activities of their country’s lead organization for rice research and development. Her 14-year stint in a government institute enabled her to build her expertise in biotechnology, project evaluation, planning, grant writing, and policy development. She was the main author and co-author of more than 35 technical papers and popular articles, published in peer-reviewed journals -- – all related to the evaluations of the impact of IPR (e.g. access, generation, commercialization, genetic resources, traditional knowledge, etc.) to developing countries. An IPR advocate, she helped spread the importance of IPR and innovation management in several public institutions in developing countries. She received her undergraduate and Master’s degrees in the Philippines: Bachelor of Science in Biology (Cum laude) from Central Luzon State University and Master in Technology Management (outstanding graduate) from the University of the Philippines Diliman.
