Patents - information for Science

Oswald Schröder 14 April 2010

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It looks sometimes as a dinosaur ...

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... but one which can dance

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Patent policy: its about the right balance

free competitionincentive for R&D

Protection of innovation free access to knowledge

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Patents as a Policy Measure

Protection (P) vs. Innovation (I)

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innovation

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I

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The value of EPO-patents

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Data for about 7000 EP-patents. Source: European research project ‚PATVAL„.

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The European Commission view - something is done

"... FP7 projects need to demonstrate their 'scientific and technical

excellence'."

"... proposals are (evidently) expected to possess an innovative nature.

One way of demonstrating this is to identify the state of the art by

conducting not only a bibliographic search in classical scientific literature

but also a search in patent databases."

"It is clearly in the interest of the participants and the Commission to avoid

duplication of research efforts and potential waste of both public

(Community) and private (participants’) funds."

Guide to Intellectual Property Rules for FP7 projects

European Commission

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EPOPatent Information

Resource

Bibliographic DataCited References

Acquisition Translated Abstracts and traditonal knowledge

ExchangePartners

National Offices

External Contractors

ValidationNormalisationStandardisation

ClassificationData Quality Improvement

IFD 14.10

ST.30 14.07

REFI14.09

Correction Circulation

EPOSearch and Examination

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Patent information is a common good

70 million documents

Traditional knowledge

www.epo.org

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Patents and Clean Energy: Bridging the gap between evidence and policy

Seite 10

Patents and Clean EnergyBridging the gap between evidence and policy

COP15

Copenhagen, December 18, 2009

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Understanding what happened - Kyoto

Counts are measured in terms of claimed priorities, normalised to 1978=1.0.

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Transfer is measured as the relationship between source country of inventions

(“inventor country”) and countries in which protection of the intellectual property has been sought.

Share knowledge - technology transfer

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Develop together: bio fuels

The map shows how frequently inventors from different countries cooperate in the development of patented technologies.

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CET Patents and licensing activity

• around 50% have an important or decisive part of CET patents in their

portfolio

• 39% have changed their business strategy concerning licensing over the

last 3 years in a positive sense

Out-licensing activities In-licensing activities