Intellectual Property and valorization at INRIA Jean-Loc Delhaye - - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Intellectual Property and valorization at INRIA

Jean-Loïc Delhaye - Tokyo, 11/3/2003

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National Research Institute in Computer Science and Control

Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies (ICST)

• Fundamental and applied research
• Designing experimental systems
• Knowledge and technology transfer
• Contribution to standardization bodies (W3C, IETF, ISO,

IEEE …)

A Public French Scientific and Technological Institute under the auspices of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry.

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Key numbers

A scientific force of 3000

January 2003

900 INRIA permanent staff 400 researchers 500 engineers, technical and administrative staff 450 researchers from other

• rganizations (CNRS,

universities, …) 700 trainees, PhD students 200 engineers working on contracts 750 post-docs, visiting scientists …

6 Research Units

Budget : 119,4 M€ (HT)

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Research Units Rocquencourt Loria Rhône-Alpes Irisa Sophia Antipolis Futurs

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To mobilize its efforts

• n a few scientific grand challenges
• Internet and heterogeneous networks
• Web and multimedia
• Reliable software
• Complex Systems
• Modeling, simulation and virtual reality

Two strategic objectives :

• Scientific excellence
• Technology transfer

Major fields of application :

• Telecommunications and multimedia
• Healthcare and biology
• Transportation
• Environment

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99 research teams grouped in 4 themes

Networks and systems (23 teams)

• Parallelism and Architecture
• Networks, Systems, Performance Evaluation
• Distributed and Real-Time Programming

Software Engineering, Symbolic Computing (18 teams)

• Semantics and Programming
• Algorithms and Formal Computing

Human-Computer Interaction, Image Processing, Data Management, Knowledge Systems (31 teams)

• Databases, Knowledge Bases, Cognitive Systems
• Vision, Image Analysis and Synthesis

Simulation and Optimization of Complex Systems (27 teams)

• Control, Robotics, Signal Processing
• Modeling and Scientific Computing

January 2003

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Knowledge and Technology Transfer

(1/2)

How ?

• People (PhD students, Post-Doctoral, …)
• Contracts, partnerships
• Commercial Licenses
• Open Source Licenses
• Publications, conferences, …
• Starting spin-off companies

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Knowledge and Technology Transfer

(2/2)

Intellectual Property : protection

• Joint Ownership : quite usual
• Software : APP (IDDN-InterDeposit Digital

Number System)

• Patent (product, process) if applicable
• Non Disclosure Agreements
• To make scientists aware of IP aspects
• The new Law (July 1999) to foster Innovation

Policy and TT from public to private is very useful

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Patents (1/3)

• Not very common in our domains of research
• Today, INRIA earns 44 patents with patents

abroad

• Domains : telecommunications (17), medical

imaging (11), systems (6), cryptography (4)

• The valorization of these patents is not easy
• A patent can be very useful to start a new

technology company

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Patents (2/3) : deposits

2 4 6 8 10 12 14 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002

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Patents (3/3) : examples

Cache Memory Device

• Deposit :1992
• Extensions : Germany, UK, The Netherlands, USA, Japan, PCT,

European Patent

• To improve the average cache memory data access hit rate
• Valorization : difficult !

Ubi-Bus : Ambient Computing in Urban Environments

• Deposit : 2002
• Valorization : ongoing discussions

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Software (1/3)

Steps of development

• « Research object » ; to be shared with colleagues
• « Mature software », can be valorized (licenses)

APP Deposit (Agency for the Protection of Programs)

• A member of InterDeposit, an international federation for

data-processing and information technologies

• APP deposit MUST be done before any communication
• utside INRIA
• To identify the « inventors » and the ownership(s)
• APP deposit does not induce a mode of valorization
• About 40 deposits per year since 1999

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Software (2/3) : methods of valorization

• No software distribution without license
• Open-source license (Open Source Definition)
• Commercial license
• Starting a spin-off company
• Choosing the method of valorization : must be

done by the authors WITH INRIA’s management (INRIA has the IP Rights)

• To promote INRIA’s software : Web site, CD, …

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Software (3/3) : examples

Scilab

• A free scientific software package for numerical computations

(linear algebra, control, signal processing, simulation, …)

• An alternative to Matlab
• A consortium to finance new developments

GHS3D

• Fully automatic tetrahedral mesher,
• f industrial quality
• Marketed by Simulog (French Company)
• Worldwide references : Nastran, Ansys, Catia,

Cosmos, LN-DYNA

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Conclusion

• An improvement of the protection and of the valorization of

the results of our research activities

• Royalties (> 1 M€) of licenses come mainly (95%) from

software; but 95% of the expenses to protect our results are for direct patents expenses

• Increasing the ROI for patents means more investments

(prospecting, …)

• Important question about the software :

– Encouraging the development of Open-Source Software? – Legalizing the patenting of programs for computers ? – Ongoing discussions including in the European Commission

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Domo Merci Thank you

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