1 Intellectual Property and valorization at INRIA Jean-Loïc Delhaye - Tokyo, 11/3/2003
2 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.
3 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 organizations (CNRS, 6 Research universities, …) Units 700 trainees, PhD students 200 engineers working on contracts 750 post-docs, visiting scientists … Budget : 119,4 M€ (HT)
4 Research Units Rocquencourt Loria Rhône-Alpes Irisa Sophia Antipolis Futurs
5 To mobilize its efforts on 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 •
6 99 research teams grouped in 4 themes January 2003 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 •
7 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
8 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
9 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
10 Patents (2/3) : deposits 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002
11 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 •
12 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 outside 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
13 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, …
14 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, of industrial quality • Marketed by Simulog (French Company) • Worldwide references : Nastran, Ansys, Catia, Cosmos, LN-DYNA
15 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
16 Domo Merci Thank you www.inria.fr
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