Processes and procedures following research result creation

 

The employee is obliged to immediately report any research and development result arising in the course of employment to the employer (see point 1 below, Notification of the result in the EZOP Project Registry System), who may exercise the right to the result within 3 months. In the case of exercise, the inventor is entitled to a reasonable remuneration. In the case of a refusal, the intellectual property right passes to the inventor.

The whole process is carried out in accordance with the Rector´s Directive No. 20/2020 and is administered by the Department for Scientific and Research Activities of the CTU Rector´s Office. The contact person at the Faculty of Civil Engineering is the TT Officer tt@fsv.cvut.cz

Gradual steps

1. Notification of the result in the EZOP Project Registry System

• Completion of the Notification of the Creation of an Industrial Property Object (invention, utility model, industrial design, CTU trademark or internal CTU registration only)
• The Notification Form, including instructions for completion, is here
• Assistance in completing and approving the Notification Form is provided by the Department for Scientific and Research Activities of the CTU Rector´s Office patenty@cvut.cz
• In the case that the co-inventors of the result are without legal relationship to CTU, it is necessary to document the consent of all co-inventors with their shares in the result, e.g. in the form of a Co-Ownership Agreement (sample available here). The document should be uploaded as an attachment to the application (tab Attached files).
• The Notification must include information about the funding of the protective documents of the result (department, faculty, CTU, project, another source - as agreed with the Head of the Department)
• For results that are not registered in the EZOP Project Registry System (e.g. prototype, proven technology or know-how), the notification is made by filling in the form Notification of the Creation of a R&D Result Unregistered in the EZOP Application

2. Ensuring research result protection

• Assignment of a patent attorney, possibility to choose an external attorney – in this case it is necessary to have a power of attorney signed by the CTU Rector
• Preparation and filing of an application for an invention, utility model, industrial design, trademark in the Czech Republic and abroad – ensured by the CTU Patent Centre !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CTU Patent Centre in collaboration with the FCE Department of Science and Research.

3. Commercialisation of research results

• At the faculty level, support is provided by the TT officer tt@fsv.cvut.cz, who, in collaboration with the Legal Department, will coordinate the entire process
• At the Rector´s Office level, support is provided by the Department for Technology Transfer and Fundraising !!!!!!
• Individual commercialisation cases are approved by the Commercialisation Council of the Faculty of Civil Engineering
• The most common ways of commercialisation:
  - Concluding a Licence Agreement
  - Contract for Work
  - Founding a new company, e.g. Start-up, Spin-off, ...
• An internal agreement must be concluded between the inventor, the department, the faculty and other component parts involved in commercialisation before commercialisation can begin: https://webdata.fsv.cvut.cz/data.fsv.cvut.cz/Shares/k922/Public/Vzory%20DV_T The agreement shall specify the roles of the parties and determine the distribution of commercialisation revenues.