3. Identify the IP rights from which its innovations and intangible assets are likely to benefit
Intangible assets play a predominant role in corporate assets. Even if they have little or no innovation, companies possess intangible assets of various kinds – trademarks and distinctive signs, designs and models, website architecture and content, information systems, data files, studies, methods... – which may or may not give rise to intellectual property rights.
Similarly, research and development projects, whether carried out within a company or as part of a partnership, generally produce a wide variety of results, including patentable inventions, unpatentable innovations, patentable but secret manufacturing processes, experimental or test data, new designs and forms, computer developments, software works...
What's more, the same innovation can sometimes be the subject of several intellectual property rights. For example, software is...
The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference
This article is included in
Management and innovation engineering
This offer includes:
Knowledge Base
Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees
Services
A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources
Practical Path
Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills
Doc & Quiz
Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading
Identify the IP rights from which its innovations and intangible assets are likely to benefit
Take appropriate protective measures
Bibliography
Propriété intellectuelle : faits et chiffres de l'OMPI 2016 Author : OMPI | Year of publication : 2016
Regulations
Authors
Sheet initially drafted by Laurence Tellier Loniewski, lawyer, and Virginie Brunot, lawyer at the Paris Bar, graduate of CEIPI patents, trademarks, designs and models, Lexing Alain Bensoussan Avocats – first publication: 2017
Websites
Institut national de la propriété industrielle (INPI)
A self-financed public institution under the supervision of the French Ministry of Industrial Property, INPI plays an active role in the development and implementation of public policies in the field of intellectual property, in support of innovation and business competitiveness, and in the fight against...
Glossary (in French law)
Invention patents
Industrial property title issued by the Director of the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle which confers on its holder or his successors in title an exclusive right to use a patentable invention that is new, has an inventive step and is capable of industrial application.
Patent law is governed by Book VI of the French Intellectual...
The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference
