Incentives for patenting and the economic exploitation of patents: Patent Invitalia contributions
"Okay, I have an idea and I have a patent but how do I make them productive?". To answer, let's see what it provides and how the program works Patents + Invitalia, national agency for inward investment. It is a system of incentives to grant fielded by the Ministry of Economic Development has 30.5 million euro.
With the sub-measure "Incentives for the economic exploitation of the patent" program + Patents, Invitalia facilitates service costs activation of patents in production cycles.
Activities eligible for financing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, even if made in the last 12 months.
And 'necessary that beneficiaries have legal and operational throughout the country.
Are financed purchases of specialist services to enable the patents in the production cycle of the company as long as it is in one of the following conditions:
is in possession of one or more patents;
has filed one or more patent applications at the Italian Patent and Trademark Office or the European Patent Office or the World Organization for Intellectual Property;
option or is in possession of a preliminary agreement of purchase or acquisition of a license to one or more patents.
The contribution, grants, amounted to € 70,000 and can not exceed 80% of the costs for:
design, prototyping, production testing, certification of products and processes;
studies and analysis for the launch of new products and the development of new markets;
concession agreements in patent licensing agreements of secrecy.
Last unfailing condition to enjoy the incentive is that specialist services are not billed on a date prior to the submission of the incentive.
Preference will be strategies for the exploitation of patents that can improve the competitiveness of enterprises, able to make functional services and demonstrating consistency between the associations of suppliers and services required.
The request for access to the facilities is via the compilation of the project (project plan) on the platform of Invitalia spa at the end of a protocol which is released electronically. The project must be sent within 30 days of the electronic protocol to Invitalia by registered mail or certified mail.
The project plan should highlight the ways in which the company intends to economically exploit the patent and how the requested services are aimed at achieving concrete and measurable results.
23/12/2011
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