Registering a patent with the University
We have signed a framework agreement with the European Patent Office and the European Union Intellectual Property Office to promote awareness and education about intellectual property (IP).
We promote the enhancement of Unipd knowledge and its transfer from the world of the University to the market and society. Among the tools available to achieve these objectives is the patent, whose purpose is to legally protect the result of innovative research, giving the owner the right to exclude third parties from producing, marketing or importing products derived from the invention.
We follow the procedures for the filing and management of patents based on research produced internally, in accordance with the Patent Regulation and in harmony with the Industrial Property Code.
Patents and Universities, protecting research results
The University files patents based on the inventions of those who do research in order to protect their results and enhance Unipd knowledge through subjects interested in exploiting them commercially. In particular, it offers support for the establishment of spin-off companies owned by researchers, who will continue to develop the technology covered by the patent to bring it to the market with products and services.
The Industrial Property Code provides that inventions developed by university researchers are the property of the University to which, therefore, they must be promptly communicated.
Researchers are supported with the help of specialists in the patent field, in the process necessary to verify patentability and to evaluate the opportunity to protect the results with a patent application or with other tools, to promote their economic exploitation.
The forms for the communication of potentially patentable inventive results (Invention Communication) are available in the Patenting with the University of Moodle section of the Third Mission and Research Enhancement Office, Innovation, Technology Transfer and Business Relations Sector.
More information and resources can be found in Moodle.
To verify whether the invention developed within the University meets the patentability requirements, contact the Knowledge Enhancement and Academic Entrepreneurship Office - Technology Transfer Sector (trasferimento.tecnologia@unipd.it) before disclosing the results in any way.
Knowledge enhancement and academic entrepreneurship
Technology Transfer Sector
via Martiri della Libertà 8 , 35137 Padova
tel 049 8271966-1846-1847-1848- 1965-1825-1860
Email: trasferimento.tecnologia@unipd.it
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