Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Introduction to

Intellectual Property

Rights

D. Mazur – 9 September 2014

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Overview

• What are Intellectual Property Rights ?

• How do IPR’s relate to CERN’s mission ?

• Patents • What is it ?

• What can you do with it ?

• How do you obtain one ?

• Using Patent Information

• Copyright & Software

• Trademarks

• How does it all fit together ?

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Overview

• What are Intellectual Property Rights ?

• How do IPR’s relate to CERN’s mission ?

• Patents • What is it ?

• What can you do with it ?

• How do you obtain one ?

• Using Patent Information

• Copyright & Software

• Trademarks

• KT and how it all fits together

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

What are Intellectual Property

Rights ?

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Overview of IPR’s

Patent Copyright

Trademark Design

Geographical

Indication Plant Variety

Integrated

Circuit

Layouts

Trade

Secret

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Characteristics of some IPR’s Patent Trademark Copyright

Rationale Incentive to invent

Public access to

knowledge

Avoid confusion about

source of goods /

services.

Protection of authors

Subject-matter Inventions Words

Phrases

Symbols

Designs,

Sounds

Works of authorship,

tangibly expressed.

Criteria New

Inventive

Industrially applicable

Capable of

distinguishing

goods/services.

Original work of

authorship

Registration Yes

Yes / No

No

Duration 20 years

Indefinite, subject to

use

Life + 70 yrs

70 yrs after publication

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

IPR’s and CERN ?

• The right to prevent others from:

• using, manufacturing, selling, importing an invention.

• using a trademark which is identical or confusingly

similar, in relation to products and services which are

identical or similar.

• reproducing, distributing, performing work of

authorship.

Knowledge Dissemination ?

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

IPR – A transferable asset

• The right to enable others to:

• use, manufacture, sell, import an invention.

• use a trademark which is identical or confusingly

similar, in relation to products and services which are

identical or similar.

• reproduce, distribute, perform work of authorship.

under agreed conditions.

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Technology Transfer Models

Public Domain

Open Dissemination

Protected Dissemination

• GNU General Public License

• CERN Open Hardware License

• Copyleft

• Publication of invention

• Patents

• Proprietary licenses

• Trade secrets

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Overview

• What are Intellectual Property Rights ?

• How do IPR’s relate to CERN’s mission ?

• Patents • What is it ?

• What can you do with it ?

• How do you obtain one ?

• Using Patent Information

• Copyright & Software

• Trademarks

• How does it all fit together ?

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

The Patent System

Patent

System

Patent

Application

Granted

Patent

Publication

Society

Applicant

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

What is a patent ?

• Bibliographic

Information

• Abstract

• Description

• Drawings

• Claims

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

What can be patented ?

• Inventions which are:

• New

• Inventive

• Industrially applicable

Date of Filing

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Not everything is an invention

1. Discoveries, Scientific Theories, Mathematical Methods

2. Aesthetic Creations

3. Schemes, Rules and Methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers

4. Presentations of information

… as such.

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

How is a patent obtained ?

Inventors

KT-IP

Patent

Attorneys

Patent

Office

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International Context (1)

Paris Convention for the

Protection of Industrial

Property (1883)

• Right of priority

• National treatment

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International Context (2) European

Patent

Convention

(1973)

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International Context (3) Patent

Cooperation

Treaty

(1978)

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Patents and publications

• When can you publish without jeopardizing

your patent application ?

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Overview

• What are Intellectual Property Rights ?

• How do IPR’s relate to CERN’s mission ?

• Patents • What is it ?

• What can you do with it ?

• How do you obtain one ?

• Using Patent Information

• Copyright & Software

• Trademarks

• How does it all fit together ?

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

The Patent System

Patent

System

Patent

Application

Granted

Patent

Publication

Society

Applicant

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Patent information

• Volume: ~ 80 Million patent documents.

• Growth: ~ 2 Million per year

• Between 500k to 1M «inventions» published per year

• Detailed classification

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Patent Search – Live Demo

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Overview

• What are Intellectual Property Rights ?

• How do IPR’s relate to CERN’s mission ?

• Patents • What is it ?

• What can you do with it ?

• How do you obtain one ?

• Using Patent Information

• Copyright & Software

• Trademarks

• How does it all fit together ?

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Copyright & Software

Software

Copyright

Invention ?

Open

Source

Proprietary

Considerations

• License types

• Dependencies

• Community

• Liability

• Cloud service

• Support

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Overview

• What are Intellectual Property Rights ?

• How do IPR’s relate to CERN’s mission ?

• Patents • What is it ?

• What can you do with it ?

• How do you obtain one ?

• Using Patent Information

• Copyright & Software

• Trademarks

• How does it all fit together ?

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Trademarks

• CERN logo and labels

• Names of… projects, software, buildings. • Boundaries of using «in trade»

• Clearance

• Commercialization ? • Clearance

• Apply for trademark

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

How does it all fit together ?

Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014

Questions – patents & trademarks

David Mazur

Tel. 70990

david.mazur@cern.ch