Transcript Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights
Margaret Lawlor
Business Development Manager
Faculty of Medical Sciences
3rd October 2013
copyright©NewcastleUniversity 2013
Research and Enterprise Services
– The Faculty Enterprise Teams works to protect and
commercialise research results arising from all schools and
institutes within the University
– A substantial amount of income can be generated through
successful exploitation of intellectual property which can
benefit the University, its employees and research sponsors
– Majority of bioscience/healthcare innovation still comes from
academia
– In order to realise the true value of intellectual property, it
must be properly protected and managed.
So what are inventions?
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Know how
Assays
Cell models
Medical devices
Engineered proteins
Antibodies
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Biomarkers
Drug targets
Therapeutic agents
Animal models
Etc, etc
Protecting Inventions
• Can it be protected?
– Patents: A legal right granted by a country
– Owner can prevent others in that country from using,
making or selling the technology for approx. 20 years
– Must be ‘novel’, ‘non-obvious’ and ‘capable of industrial
application’
– Other ways to protect:
• Trade Secrecy –
• Trademark• Copyright
Commercial value
• Is it better than what’s gone before?
– Small improvement or large step
• How big is the potential market?
• Is that market currently satisfied?
• How much development is needed?
• What are competitors developing?
Creating Value to Attract Industry
• The University teaches and researches: it doesn’t take
products to market!
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For that, we need partners.
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Companies need an incentive to take on the risk and financial investment
– Patent protection provides a time-limited monopoly which is essential to offset
the cost/risk associated with drug development
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Drug development is very high risk and costly (£500m +, 10 years to bring a
drug to market)
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Intellectual property is an asset that can be used to generate money to fund
further research, develop the university and potentially benefit inventors
and society
Advancing Discoveries to Beat Cancer
Intellectual Property Assignment
– Agreeing to assign (transfer ownership) of intellectual property developed
during your Research Project to Newcastle University
• University will pay all costs associated with protecting and
commercialising the intellectual property
– Receive a share of any revenues obtained by the University upon
commercialisation of your technology (as if member of staff)
– Agree to discuss your contribution to intellectual property, be named as an
inventor (if appropriate) and complete/sign any necessary documents
Confidentiality
– Any information received or generated during the course of your time at
University should be kept secret and confidential (unless known to be in the
public domain)
• Lab meetings
• Internal seminars
• Coffee breaks
– All proposed publications to be submitted to your
supervisor at least one month prior to
submission/presentation
• Abstracts
• Posters
• Presentations
• Manuscripts
– If publication contains patentable invention or commercially sensitive
information you could be asked to withhold publication for up to 4 months.
Further information
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Enterprise team, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Ground floor, Leech building
[email protected]
222 3461
Thank you!