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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
Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014
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
Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014
How is a patent obtained ? In
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Att
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Pa
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Offic
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Assessment
& Search
Novelty
Search Drafting
Assessment Review
Filing
Date of
Filing
Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014
How is a patent obtained ? In
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KT-I
P
Pa
ten
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Att
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Pa
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Offic
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Search
Assessment
& Response
Examination
Assessment
& Response
Date of
Filing Patent
Granted
Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014
International Context (1)
Paris Convention for the
Protection of Industrial
Property (1883)
• Right of priority
• National treatment
Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014
International Context (2) European
Patent
Convention
(1973)
Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014
International Context (3) Patent
Cooperation
Treaty
(1978)
Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation KT Training – 9 September 2014
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