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Facilitate Open Science Training for European 
Research 
“Addressing IP challenges in collaborations and making data openly 
accessible” 
  Joe Doyle, Intellectual Property Manager, Enterprise Ireland 
 
  
Open access and research data management:  
Horizon 2020 and beyond 
University College Cork, April 14th & 15th 2015  
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My Objectives: 
• Intellectual Property in Context 
•  Innovation 
•  Collaboration 
•Challenges  
• IP management 
• Coexisting IP Rights 
• IP in H2020 and Open Access 
• Overview 
• Support & Resources 
 
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Commercialise Create 
Intellectual Property and Innovation? 
Innovation 
The process of applying 
new solutions to existing 
problems Problems 
Solutions 
Continuous Innovation 
Requires a management process to capture inputs and outputs 
between the market and development activities.  
Property 
Intellectual 
Capture 
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Commercialise Create 
Intellectual Property and Collaboration? 
Solutions 
Problems 
Intellectual 
Property 
Capture 
Innovation Collaboration 
Managing interdependent yet 
apparently competing 
demands and motivations. 
? 
Industry HEI 
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Commercialise Create 
Intellectual Property and Collaboration? 
Solutions 
Problems 
Rights 
Intellectual 
Property 
Capture 
Resources 
State Aid 
Capability 
Reward 
Academia 
Profit 
Competition 
Market 
Monopoly 
Investors 
Innovation Collaboration 
IP makes it possible achieve 
balance of rights between 
creator and user. 
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Intellectual Property  
It’s Much More than Patents!   
Intellectual Asset Management  
Processes 
Policies, Processes 
Documentation 
Templates.  
Intellectual Capacity 
Expertise, 
Infrastructure, ICT, 
Finance, Partnerships 
Intellectual Assets 
Undisclosed info, 
Research Results, 
Agreements, Notebooks, 
Know/Show how, Data. 
Intellectual  
Property 
Patents, Designs, ®, 
Trade Secrets, UMs, 
Databases 
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IP in Collaborations – it’s an imperfect world!  
Sources of conflict 
• Poor IP Management 
• Lack of Clarity 
• Low IP Awareness 
• Balancing Rights and 
Rewards 
• Diverging motivations 
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IP Management – Challenges at Each Phase 
Collaboration 
Partnership 
Industry 
HEI 
BIP 1 Background 
IP  
Non- 
Severable 
Foreground IP BIP 2 
FIP 1 
Severable 
Foreground 
IP 
FIP 1 
Collaboration 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Programme(s) 
Background  
IP in 
Foreground 
 IP Out 
 
Background  
IP Out 
Partnership  
& Researcher 
Agreements 
Grant & 
Collaboration 
Agreements 
Collaboration is Complex! 
Must have clear and consistent IP management policies and 
procedures at ALL project phases 
Proposal Implementation Exploitation 
BIP 2 
BIP 1 
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Employee/Subcontractor 
• Active contribution to idea 
• Right of recognition  
Employee/Subcontractor 
• Original expression of idea 
• Moral rights 
IP – Coexisting Rights 
Organisation/Partnership 
• Assignee 
• Enforcement and usage 
rights 
Intellectual 
Property 
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Open Access (Open Science) Summary 
Rationale 
• Build on previous results 
• Foster collaboration and avoid duplication 
• Accelerate Innovation 
• Involve citizens and society  
Free? 
• Publicly accessible online free of charge, but… 
• Authors retain control over the integrity of their work and the 
right to be properly acknowledged and cited 
(www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read)   
Obligations 
• Deposit ’machine readable’ e-copy in online repository no 
later than publication date. 
• Provide open access to publication, and underlying data 
where possible, via repository 
• Open Data Pilot – Certain themes, option to opt in 
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IP in Horizon 2020 – Dissemination of Results 
Data 
Dissemination 
Plan 
Immediate 
open access 
Self archiving. 
Embargo period. 
Data 
Management 
Plan 
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Licensing Open Access 
Data 
Repository 
Publication 
Disclosed 
Data 
Trade secret 
(if properly managed) 
Undisclosed 
Data 
Patents 
(other) 
Dissemination Plan and 
Data Management plan  
Dissemination and Exploitation  
Making use of results (aka innovation) 
Intellectual Asset Management  
Processes 
Intellectual Capacity 
Annotated Model Grant 
Agreement (Article 29) 
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participa
nts/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/amg
a/h2020-amga_en.pdf 
Intellectual Assets 
Intellectual  
Property 
Research Data 
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Tech 
Transfer 
Office 
General Obligations… 
• Manage IP 
• Access to Background  
• Protect Results 
• Ownership of Results 
• Exploit and Disseminate 
 
Varies depending on 
programme and project 
phase 
REF: H2020 Online Manual (WIP) 
IP in Horizon 2020 – Rules and Resources 
Connected Support System for 
Industry Collaboration 
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Online resources 
www.iprhelpdesk.eu  
http://ec.europa.eu/research/particip
ants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/h
i/oa_pilot/h2020-hi-oa-pilot-
guide_en.pdf  
https://www.iprhelpdesk.eu/sites/def
ault/files/documents/EU_IPR_Guide-
to-IP-H2020.pdf  
http://ec.europa.eu/research/particip
ants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/a
mga/h2020-amga_en.pdf  
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Thank you for your attention! 
 
Questions? 
 
Joe.doyle@enterprise-ireland.com 
@EI_JDoyle