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Opportunities for joint licensing
Salvatore Amico RoxasIntellectual Property & Technology Transfer UnitEuropean Commission - Joint Research [email protected]
Grenoble, 19th October 2011
www.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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The act of bringing together different yet complementary IP assets (e.g. patents, software,
design, know-how etc.) in a joint offering whereby a more integrated and complete "product" package can be made available to the market in a more
efficient manner.
What we mean by «Joint Licensing»
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Opportunity envisaged in the course of the last meeting in Noordwijk (ESA premises)
A way to concretise collaboration intentions and synergies
Each partner can benefit from the support of the others in the exploitation process
Changing paradigm
Why to try to jointly license our R&D results
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Source: Riccardo Pietrabissa © - ProTon Europe Annual Conference - Roma - 28/09/2011
Changing paradigm
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Main steps:
To detect areas where TTO Circle members collaborate
To detect how collaborations take place (and under which type ofrules)
To identify the results achieved (or to be achieved) by each partner
To assess the opportunity to combine the results in order to jointly promote their take-up
Our approach to joint licensing
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Database of FP7 projects (E-Corda)
Selection of projects according to criteria:
- including TTO Circle partners - mainly Collaborative Projects and Contract research (not from
Res Infr, Marie Curie, Nuclear, CSA, MarieCurie)
Analysis of the Annex I (Description of Work), WPs, deliverables and collaborations within WPs
Analysis of the Plan for the Use and Dissemination of the Foreground (PUDF)
Our approach to joint licensing
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FP7 projects statistics
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Large-scale collaborative project “APOLLON”: Multi-APprOach for high efficiency integrated and inteLLigentcONcentrating PV modules
Partners: ENEA, Tecnalia, JRC
Aim: - to develop High concentration Point Focus (PF) and Dense Array (DA) systems based on monolithic and discrete Multi-junction (MJ) technology with a final target cost of 2 €/W.
Duration: 01/7/2008 - 06/30/2013
Example: Apollon project
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Main WPs:1 Optimisation of Existing MJ Cell technologies2 Advanced MJ Solar Cell3 Development of Point focus systems 4 Development of Mirror Based Spectrum Splitting Systems (MBS3)5 Testing and Performance Evaluation6 Environmental and Economic Assessment
Example: Apollon project
Opportunities:
- to combine WP results
- to detect further resultsCollaborations:
- WP3: ENEA & Tecnalia - development of intelligent module (integrating an MPPT device)
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Hurdles and Opportunities
Hurldles Opportunities
Lack of clarity of the agreement in place among partners (e.g. who owns what)
Lack of PUDF
Fragmentation of ownership (results jointly owned by many partners)
# of partners (risk of spill-over)
Number of projects involving TTO Circle partners
Provision of a timely support for results exploitation and IP management
Increase the influence on technology development activities
Increase our outreach by combining our contact networks
