You were contacted by the patent office recently and this is the announced survey.
PERU is one of the countries participating in the service, representing the South, so your participation is important. The study is supported by the World Trade Organization and results will be presented there, in addition to a report to participating companies and government for PERU.
How much do you earn from licensing?
What are the terms you achieve when licensing with the developed world? This survey aims at showing the economic importance of patent licensing. Your data are therefore key to discuss facilitating such trade in ideas.
This survey is ANONYMOUS and individual information will NOT be shared. Summary information across all companies in the survey will be shared during the workshop and in the subsequent report as input. The report will be sent to all participants in the survey for your own information and use.
We also ask you to joint a workshop by video. There is a nice room for about 10 companies. Please select the preferred date at the end of the survey.
Participants in the pilot-workshop will also receive a report from the workshop, including results from discussions.
About 10 companies will be represented in the first pilot-workshop. Government representatives from the patent office, ministry of economy and trade will be at the workshop.
In the workshop, we will discuss the importance of patent licensing, the barriers of trade that you face in patenting and licensing. These inputs will thus be used to facilitate the exchange in your patented technology with the world, hopefully containing lessons that will ameliorate your terms of trade. Ultimately increasing the Return on investments in Patent Assets is the goal.
So please fill out the survey to best reflect the value of such licensing to you.
The questions aim at understanding (i) terms of trade in patent licensing (prices) firms in developing countries actually achieve when licensing patent with the world, (ii) what is the Return on Assets that you have achieved and (iii) the barriers to licensing you have encountered.
We call this “Trade in Ideas”.
Hope to see you in the video-workshop!
Eskil Ullberg, PhD
Senior Research Scholar IMIT and the Trade in Ideas Program Adjunct Professor, George Mason University http://report.ullberg.biz