Since 2000, through industry-university cooperation, we have improved competitiveness for commercialization of technology and Efforts to make it a growth engine for science and technology development are continuing. Accordingly, the importance of indu...
Since 2000, through industry-university cooperation, we have improved competitiveness for commercialization of technology and Efforts to make it a growth engine for science and technology development are continuing. Accordingly, the importance of industry-university cooperation for the promotion of joint R&D is gradually increasing, but due to the difference in position between universities and companies, it is experiencing many difficulties until it leads to actual joint research.
In particular, when universities and companies own shared patent rights as a result of industry-academia joint research, the university contributes greatly to the shared patent rights with the company, and even if the holdings are 99.9%, there is no environment in which to pursue profits by directly implementing patent rights as a non-profit organization. Therefore, it is a situation in which profits can be generated only by transferring shares of jointly named patent rights to a third party or by transferring technology that grants a license.
In addition, a company that is a joint holder of a patent right can generate revenue through direct self-implementation without the consent of the university, but it is difficult for the university to generate revenue through direct self-implementation of the patent achievement derived together, and Article 99 of the Patent Act Due to Paragraphs 2 and 4, technology transfer to a third party is possible only with the consent of the company that is the joint owner. Although there are provisions in the Patent Act for direct implementation by one of the joint holders of patent rights or implementation through a third party, There is no regulation on the sharing of revenues arising from this.
In conclusion, the vitalization of industry-university joint research and the utilization of shared patent rights, which are the outcome of joint research, are important. Unfair interests between universities and companies can become a stumbling block.
In other words, in accordance with the current patent law of Korea, each co-owner of a shared patent right jointly owned by a university and a company can self-license without the consent of the other co-owner, but a university that is unable to self-exemplify may transfer its shared share to a third party or Compensation such as recovery of research and development expenses can be
obtained by generating revenue through technology transfer that grants a non-exclusive license to a third party or establishes an exclusive license. To do this, the consent of the company, which is another co-owner, is required, but in most cases, the actual university does not obtain consent because there is no legal obligation on the part of the company to consent due to the emergence
of other competitors and the threat of self-implementation. In order to solve these problems, revision of the patent law is required.
It is necessary to introduce a non-Implementation compensation claim system as a plan to amend the Patent Act of Korea to maximize the implementation of the patented invention by actively promoting share transfer and technology transfer of shared patent rights.
Key words : Co-Owned Patent Right of universities, IP Management, Cooperative Research, Non-Implementation Compensation