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IPR in spin-off companies & Technology Centers Esteban Pelayo Villarejo Regional Development Agency of Murcia [email protected] Tel.: 0034 968 362812

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Presentation directed to spin-off promoters in the University. It has a brief explanation on how it works the public IPR assesment and the network of tecnology centers in the Region of Murcia (Spain)

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IPR in spin-off companies & Technology Centers

Esteban Pelayo VillarejoRegional Development Agency of Murcia

[email protected].: 0034 968 362812

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• Esteban [email protected]. 0034 968 362812

• Patent attorney

• Regional development agency of Murcia– Coordination of

technology centres– IPR assesment

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Our IPR services

• We provide assitance• Patlib center• PATLIB stands for PATent

LIBrary

• The companies could make applications in our premises

• Agreement with the spanish patent and trademark ofice

• Assesment on agreements to licence technology

• Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) - SEIMED

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IPR Services provided in figures

(year 2010)

Patents

Utility model

Trademarks Designs

Appeals and other Total

Register – Another to apply to the Spanish Patent & Trademark Office

Applications 12 8 161 9 6 196

Other 25 0 161 20 60 266

Total 37 8 322 29 66 462

Assistance – Customized assesment

Distant services 36 10 86 5 2 139

Visits 37 14 318 4 7 380

Total 73 24 404 9 9 519

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Other activities

• First Monthly Tuesday Workshops

– Introduction to trademarks and patents– Two experts

• 9:00 to 10:00 patents• 10:00 to 11:00 trademarks

• Specialized workshops– Aimed to specific sector

• Metalmechanics, ICTs, furniture, plastics, etc.

• Specific problems are analyzed in the workshop

• Strong identification: examples are brought from the specific sector

– Very participative: • Only 1 expert and 2 cases study• Brief presentation• They answer and resolve the

questions of the enterprises• 25 enterprises take part in the

workshop

• CPII – Guides of Intellectual and Industrial Property

– Sectorial character– All aspects are analyzed: patents,

marks, designs, copyright – Specific examples– With specialized content customized

for each sector:• Metalmechanics: Utility models• ICT- Software patents• Furniture - Designs• Food - Biotechnology patents

• News dissemination– Funny– Atractive– Formative

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Our main clients demands

• Many of them (> 400 clients):– How to register

trademarks– Administrative procedure

of trademarks

• Some (< than 100 clients)– How to protect the

technology?– Previous searches of

patents– Writing a patent– Internationalization

• Just a few (5 to 10 clients)– Infringements– Licence

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TECHNOLOGY CENTERSAn open window of the innovation in SMEs

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Technology centers

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Main characteristics

• Ten technology centers– 176 employees– 12.175 K€ annual income

• Specialized in a traditional industry

• Focused on bringing innovation to the SMEs by– Fostering innovation– Providing services– Making applied R&D projects

• The companies rum by themselves all the tecnology centers

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Good average of regional innovative companies

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

521

626

689

807

843870

911

874

838809

Membership(number of companies)

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More than 1.750 client companies which demand ove 14.000 services per year

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2007 2008 2009 2010

12,000

12,500

13,000

13,500

14,000

14,500

1,350

1,400

1,450

1,500

1,550

1,600

1,650

1,700

1,750

1,800

Services’ client companies & services provided(2010)

Nº de informes /servicios

Nº de empresas clientes de los ser-vicios

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98 R&D projects for 123 companies

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2007 2008 2009 2010

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80 78

98

112

152

123 123

Applied R&D and numer of users

Nº Proyec-tos de I+D+i bajo contrato

Nº empresas en proyec. bajo contrato

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How the spanish companies innovate?

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With whom they cooperate?

In Spain there are 39.043 innovative companies, just 20’54% of total companiesIn the Region of Murcia there are 1.091 innovative companies, just 16’92% of total companies of the Región.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Esteban PelayoInstituto de Fomento de la Región de [email protected] 34 968 362821

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