Strategy in case of potential infringement of a patent: – purchase or in-license the blocking patent; – cross licensing: exchanging license to use certain patents owned by two institutions; – inventing around an existing patent; this is always possible and generally it does not represent an IPR infringement. – patent […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
The Benefits of Patenting for a research institution have to be understood in the order of invigorating further research and partnership. A patent granted is a right to exclude other from a market. It is not a right to commercialize. Limits of patents are territorial patent protection, limited duration, limited […]
Benefits of Patenting for a research institution
The Valorisation of technology is understood, in terms of technology transfer, as the process of value-creation out of knowledge, by making this knowledge suitable and available for economic or societal utilization and to translate this into high-potential products, services, processes and industrial activity. Valorisation is not just about ‘money’. In PhotonTransfer.com […]
Valorisation of Technology: transactions in the Marketplace
These are the sort of questions we ask in PhotonTransfer looking forward to going from scientist into innovator. In PhotonTransfer we help researchers how to answer to the challenge of being closer to the application of a know how. The clear identification and description of the problem, the researcher’s team, the […]
Questions in PhotonTransfer: from scientist into innovator
PhotonTransfer guidelines for the scientific researcher: If your idea requires patent protection then it is important to note that any public disclosure of your idea will limit the patent rights. You can post a technology to transfer request in PhotonTransfer.com in a confidential way. Only short description and limited information will […]
PhotonTransfer guidelines for the scientific researcher
When is it better not to patent? Getting patents rights in the entire world is very expensive (5k€ filing in one country towards 400k€ filing + maintenance in 10 countries). Patent Cooperation Treaty allows to get an extra protection in all the world for 18 months, then it will be […]
When is it better not to patent?
“Patent troll” is a pejorative term. A more neutral term is a “Non-practicing entity” or NPE. An NPE is a company that sells no products or services of its own. In their most controversial form, NPEs purchase patents on the open market and then assert them against operating companies, like AT&T […]
About Patent Troll
The end of vertical integration and the upcoming Modular Production is on of the most important trends in the future challenges for companies in Photonics. Thinking about the case of the Japanese companies: Vertical integration was a key success factor for Japanese traditional industries as automotive and basic electronics consumer electronics. […]
The end of vertical integration and upcoming Modular Production
About Photonics: Photonics21.org “Future Challenges in the Photonics Market” Kimio Tatsuno, PhD http://www.photonics21.org/download/future_challenges.pdf National Research Council. Optics and Photonics: Essential Technologies for Our Nation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2013.