3. Intellectual property building blocks
Tools
Patent
Copyright
Trade secret
Trademark
Contracts
Licence of technology
Non disclosure agreement
Research contract
4. Tool
Contract
Investigator
and
research
Technology transfer project
6. Patent
Protect technical solutions to technical problems
Requisites Strenght
Novelty Great protection
Inventive step Weakness
Industriability Expensive mainteinance and complex procedure
Duration
20 years
7. Patenting regulations @ Unitn
• Aimed to employees (professors, assistant professors, technical and administrative
staff)
• Patenting procedures at Unitn expenses
• Royalties: 70% to inventors - 30% to Unitn
• Forms to fill (technology disclosure)
• Prior art research
• University patents committee
• Licensing strategy
8. Copyright, aka «the right to copy»
don’t protect the content or the concept
Applied in automatic
You have to prove your authorship in case of challenge
Weak protection
Duration
70 years after the death of the author
11. Trademark
To be considered if you create a spin off/start up or if you want to
register the name of a specific technology you have patented
Long term investment
Expensive
14. Non disclosure agreement
Types
One way agreement
Two way agreement
Contents
What is confidential, better if written in details and attached
What happens if the parties break the agreement
How long lasts the binding
15. Research contract
Exchange money for Intellectual property rights (patents, copyright…) and/or
know how
The contract schedules technical deliverables and corrisponding payments
Normally research contracts limit the dissemination of results
Follow the procedure of Unitn “conto terzi” regulations
