IPR Plan

Deliverable D8.3 serves as PrismArch’s IPR plan. The goal of the deliverable is to discuss protection of valuable IP that may result from the project. More specifically, the goal of the deliverable is to record all knowledge assets that could potentially lead to valuable IP with commercial prospect and, on the other hand, to establish the rules of ownership, protection and management of the generated results to balance the need to disseminate the project results without discarding the opportunity to commercially exploit valuable knowledge. This deliverable starts by specifying the IPR strategy adopted in PrismArch. The strategy describes the adopted methodology and the knowledge management framework. The latter identifies the project’s Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement as the main document sources regulating the management of knowledge and intellectual property. Next, the deliverable provides PrismArch’s IPR Plan, which starts with a description of the PrismArch platform to set the context where the new knowledge is expected to emerge. Subsequently, the deliverable describes the most widely used instruments for protecting IP. Finally, the deliverable presents a set of tables (one for each work package) summarizing the IP assets that have been identified by all consortium members. PrismArch’s framework for knowledge management provides a review of all IPR-related clauses that are included in PrismArch’s GA and CA. By going through these clauses, the goal is to translate them into clear and comprehensible rules for all consortium members to follow. In establishing these rules, our main concern has been to balance the trade-off between the need to adequately disseminate the project results, without discarding the opportunity to timely protect and commercially exploit valuable IP. Finally, the deliverable provides an analysis of using third party, open source software as part of PrismArch platform to identify the precautions that need to be taken to avoid infringing a future patent or license agreement.