Presentation Slides from InfoLab21 and the Intellectual Property Office's event: "Intellectual Property: Value Creation" at Lancaster House Hotel on 14th February 2012.

1. IP from research at Lancaster Uni Dr Gavin Smith Intellectual Property Development Manager Research and Enterprise Services (“RES”) [email_address] +44 (0) 1524 (5)93298

2. Background Academic researcher Company director University IP

3. RES: Services to University Staff Help with finding and winning research grants (RSO) Assessment of commercial potential of research Patenting Connecting researchers with the world outside Licences / spinouts / collaborative grants

4. What is a 21 st century university? Teaching – graduates Research – ideas, solutions, papers Translating ideas into public policy and industrial use “ impact”

6. Intellectual Property

7. www.ipo.gov.uk

8. gb.espacenet.com

9. Formal Intellectual Property Copyright Design right Trade marks Patents Namespace names

10. New project/spinout Copyright Design right Trade marks lancasoft ® Patents www.ipo.gov.uk Company name lancasoft ltd www.companieshouse.gov.uk Internet domain name lancasoft.com or .co.uk www.nominet.org.uk Twitter hashtag? #lancasoft www.twitter.com Facebook? www.facebook.com/lancasoft www.facebook.com lancasoft

12. “ We have started a major collaborative project with several universities and some companies. We chose a neat descriptive name – and it’s in all the project documentation, research council paperwork and the university web pages.” “ I’ve just discovered that there is a company named identically and working in almost exactly the same area.” Project Ltd Project.co.uk Project® Class 09: Computer software Class 35: Provision of business information Class 38: Email services Class 42: Design and development of computer software.

13. Registered Trade Mark Lancaster

15. Patents A granted patent does not give the right to do anything Because there may be underlying patents A granted patent is not necessarily valuable

17. Patents open doors “ Hello I’m from Lancaster University. We are world experts in XXX and we’d like to collaborate with you” “ Hello, I’m from Lancaster University. We have an international patent application in XXX which we think would add value to your product line YYY”

21. Commercial IP portfolio Philips Intellectual Property and Standards employs about 450 people Patent families 12,000 Design Rights 49,000 Trademarks 33,000 Domain Names 2,600

22. Examples Spinout Licensee Patent Hybrid Instruments Ltd Digital Instrumentation DGT Research Ltd Water Quality Monitor Anasys Instruments Ltd Thermal Microscopy Becker Underwood Seed treatment MK Illumination GmbH Novel 3D display lighting No patent m-ventions Ltd Phone software Molarity Ltd Automated Business Intelligence 21 media IP Television Sigma Aldrich Inc Bio-chemicals Isis Forensics Ltd Network security software WSI Ltd Intelligent signage

26. Case Study - Firefly March 2006 – Patent filed July 2009 – Licence signed Jan 2012 – Product Launch

27. The End