Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Managing Innovation

Fraunhofer

MP 3

Fraunhofer

Joseph von Fraunhofer

The FraunhoferGesellschaft

Discovery of Fraunhofer Lines in the sun spectrum

Researcher

e.g.: Innovation Award 2004 of the German Federal President for Electric Biochip Technology e.g.: 2 patent applications each working day

New methods of lens processing

Inventor

Head of Royal Glass Factory

Entrepreneur

e.g.: ~ 450 million revenues from industry (about 4000 contracts) p. a.

Fraunhofer

Fraunhofer Research Units Worldwide

Fraunhofer

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany

Bremerhaven Bremen

Itzehoe Lbeck

Rostock

Hannover

59 Institutes 17 000 employees

Potsdam Magdeburg

Berlin Teltow Cottbus

Braunschweig Oberhausen Dortmund Duisburg Schmallenberg St. Augustin Aachen Euskirchen Wachtberg Darmstadt St. Ingbert

Halle Schkopau Jena

Leipzig Dresden Chemnitz

Ilmenau

Wrzburg

Erlangen Nrnberg

Kaiserslautern

Frth

Saarbrcken Karlsruhe Pfinztal Ettlingen Stuttgart Freising Freiburg Kandern EfringenKirchen Mnchen Holzkirchen

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General FhG IP-Strategie for Contract-Research

Rule
FhG
keeps Foreground IP

Client
receives non-exclusive/limited right of use on FhG Foreground IP

Exception
FhG
loses Foreground IP

Client
receives ownership, unlimited, exclusive right of use of FhG Foreground IP

The exception applies to individual cases, in the event, that multiple exploition is not realistic (low exploitation potential, low exploitation power), FhI's portfolio serves as an indicator

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Fraunhofer: Relation generated IPR/Quantity of R&D Contracts

Patent applications in Germany R&D Contracts from Industy Fraunhofer owns apporox. 2000 active Patents, amongst them all relevant MP3Patents
93 95 97 99 01 03

600
300

Million

500 400
200

300
,

200
100

100 0
19 94 19 95 19 96 19 97 19 98 19 99 20 00 20 01 20 02 20 03 20 04
0 89 91

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R&D contracted to Fraunhofer - Foreground

Know-how
Copyrights

non - exclusive

exclusive license individual agreement Know-how non exclusive

royalty - free license for the purpose of application on which the R&D contract is based

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R&D contracted to Fraunhofer - Foreground

Inventions

non - exclusive
royalty - free license for the purpose of application on which the R&D contract is based inventors fee (+) costs for registration, maintenance and defence partial reimbursement - (+)

exclusive
royalty - bearing license for the purpose of application on which the R&D contract is based FhG retains non - exclusive right of use for R&D purposes

or

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R&D contracted to Fraunhofer - Background

Background IP

non - exclusive necessary for exploitation of the client

royalty - bearing

Fraunhofer

R & D - Cooperations between Science and Industry

AP 1

AP 2

AP 3

FhG

Industrial Partner

University

Cooperation based on division of labour and exchange of information/results

Fraunhofer

Rights of Use in Cooperative Projects

Foreground Background

For the duration of the Beyond it, especially project for commercial exploitation of the non-exclusive rights results royalty free non-exclusive rights against royalties

Where required for the execution of the project,

Where required for the exploitation of the results

non-exclusive rights
free or against royalties

non- exclusive rights

against royalties

Fraunhofer

IP Management and Licensing

IP as asset for securing a position in technology IP as basis for licence revenues

Fraunhofer

The Top Patent Applicants in 2006

Ranking Applicant

Applications at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Source: German Patent and Trade Mark Office

Siemens AG Robert Bosch GmbH DaimlerChrysler AG Inf ineon Technologies AG Volkswagen AG Denso Corp. BASF AG Bayerische M ot oren Werke AG ZF Friedrichshafen AG Audi AG Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft BSH Bosch Siemens Hausgert e GmbH 13 Schaef f ler KG 14 Voit h Patent GmbH 15 Henkel KGaA ...

Country DE DE DE DE DE JP DE DE DE DE DE DE DE DE DE

Applicants 2 501 2 202 1 626 1 236 731 708 690 621 545 411 396 382 371 335 265

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Today Fraunhofer has attractive income from standalone licensing

60

50

Patents are a direct source of income

40

Mil

30

Licensing income
20

10

Costs
0 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

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Fraunhofer License Expenditures and Revenues

60 Licence Revenues Total Licence Expenditures 50 40 30 20 10 0
ZV-FPL/Juli06

million

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

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MP3 - music from the net

MP3 makes it possible to receive radio broadcasts in excellent quality. The download from Internet needs minutes. By filtering out frequenzes MP3 compresses the music data to around eight percent of its original volume. The developer of mp3 have won the german future price in the year 2000.

Fraunhofer

a licensor

What's the difference between

a vampire?

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