From protected invention to licence agreement

A technology brings together one or more IP assets, invention disclosures, projects, documents and unpatented know-how. A record you cannot see cannot be linked, and if it is linked it shows only its code. The team is recorded as directory people with roles and carries no ownership or shares.

TRL assessments are kept with their dates, and the current level is the latest one. In the market assessment the TTO enters scores for IP strength, market attractiveness and commercial readiness, the overall potential and the recommended strategy; EnaTTO neither calculates nor suggests scores. The public summary and the internal technical description are separate fields.

When the TTO explicitly publishes a technology, it appears in the institution’s catalogue. Publishing needs a public summary, and every linked invention disclosure must have an institutional decision on record. Outside, only the code, title, summary, sectors, keywords and current TRL are shown; the technical description and internal notes never are.

Visitors send the “I’m interested” form without an account and confirm their e-mail address. Confirmed interest becomes a licensee candidate and the commercialisation team is notified in the app; submissions not confirmed within 48 hours are deleted.

A licensee candidate is a company from the directory or a company name you type. Its status moves from new through in negotiation to agreed or declined, and negotiation steps such as meetings, calls, e-mails, NDAs, term sheets and offers are TTO records with no legal effect.

For licence, assignment and option agreements, exclusivity, field of use, territory, upfront fee, royalty rate and minimum annual payment are kept as information. A signed status requires a signature date, and signing marks the linked candidate as agreed.

Revenue such as upfront fees, royalties, milestones, minimum payments and sublicence shares is recorded only against a signed agreement, in the agreement’s currency. Revenue sharing is per agreement: recipients are people, units, institutions or free-text names, and the TTO enters the percentages. The total cannot exceed 100; any remainder shows as undistributed.

Commercialisation indicators (technologies in the portfolio and the catalogue, catalogue interest, candidates, agreements signed, revenue, royalties, shared revenue and time to agreement) appear in reports, separately per currency.