Licensing and patenting practices of UK research institutions.

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Dear University of Edinburgh,

In October 2018 we emailed requesting data about the licensing practices of your university, for analysis to be completed we require the information listed below.

Definitions

For the purpose of clarity, please adhere to the following definitions when answering these questions:

Low and middle income country: A country that is defined as ‘low’, ‘lower-middle’ and ‘upper-middle’ income by the World Bank for the year 2018. Income status defined by GNI per capita.
Source: World bank, available online [https://tinyurl.com/jr6s6fm]

Patent: A form of intellectual property (IP) rights protection, whereby a government grants to the inventor, the right to stop others from making, using or selling the product without their permission for a limited period.
Source: Upcouncil, available online [https://www.upcounsel.com/copyright-trad...

Licence: Contracts that transfer IP rights from the owner of the rights to a third party for use.
Source: Upcouncil, available online [https://www.upcounsel.com/copyright-trad...

Exclusive Licence: A licence that allows only the named licensee to exploit the relevant IP rights, the licensor is also excluded from exploiting these IP rights.
Source: TaylorWessing, available online [https://united-kingdom.taylorwessing.com...

Non-Exclusive Licence: A licence that grants any number of licensees to exploit the IP.
Source: TaylorWessing, available online [https://united-kingdom.taylorwessing.com...

Health Technology: ‘Health technology as defined by the WHO: “A health technology is the application of organised knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives.’ Source: WHO, available online [http://www.who.int/health-technology-ass…

START FOI request:

Please provide a list of patents granted to your organisation in the period 18th October 2018 to 18th October 2019, grouped by patent family, indicating countries/regions in which the patent has been granted.

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If you have any questions please feel do not hesitate to contact me by email.

Yours faithfully,

Florence Rodgers

Records Management, University of Edinburgh

Dear Florence Rodgers,

Thank you for your email of 28/02/2020 requesting information about licencing and patenting practices. I am writing to let you know that we have received your request. However we are currently experiencing a high volume of requests compounded by unplanned staff absences. We are making all efforts to process requests as quickly as possible. However, we wanted to let you know that you may not receive a response by 27/03/2020 which is 20 working days from the day we received the request.

The University is aware of its obligations to respond to information requests within the statutory deadline. If you do not receive a response to your request by 27/03/2020, you do have the right to ask the University to conduct an internal review of the reasons for the delay. Further information about your rights is available from the Scottish Information Commissioner: http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourR....

We will contact you again to provide an update on the progress of your request. Please accept our apologies for any delay.

The University of Edinburgh's request privacy notice, which describes how we use the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is published on the University website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/...

Yours sincerely

Records Management

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Records Management, University of Edinburgh

Dear Florence Rodgers

Thank you for your information request below. As explained in our acknowledgement, we were experiencing a high volume of requests compounded by unplanned staff absences at the time your request was received. We apologise for not being able to progress your request as quickly as we would have hoped.

The University’s working arrangements are now affected by the Coronavirus outbreak and it may be several months before we are able to return to normal operations. While we will make all efforts to process information requests please be aware that in many cases there will be further delay. If you would like to withdraw your request at this time and resubmit it later please let us know.

The Scottish Information Commissioner has issued a statement on the impact of the Covid-19 virus on FOI timescales:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/home/.... If you do not receive a response to your request within 20 working days of the day we received your request, you do have the right to ask the University to conduct an internal review of the reasons for the delay. If you wish to do this you should write to the Records Management Section (using this email address), describing the original request, explaining your grounds for dissatisfaction, and including an address for correspondence. When the review process has been completed, if you are still dissatisfied, you may use the Scottish Information Commissioner’s guidance on making an appeal to make an appeal to the Commissioner.

However, please note that the legislation only allows requesters to make one internal review request in relation to a request. Therefore if you ask for an internal review on the basis of our response being late, you will not be able to seek a further internal review if you are dissatisfied with the content of the response to your request when you receive it and your next step will be to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner as described above.

The University of Edinburgh's request privacy notice, which describes how we use the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is published on the University website

Yours sincerely

Records Management Section

The University of Edinburgh | Old College | South Bridge | Edinburgh | EH8 9YL

Telephone: 0131 651 4099
Email: [University of Edinburgh request email]
Website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

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Records Management, University of Edinburgh

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Dear Ms Rodgers

 

Please find attached our response to your freedom of information request
with apologies for the delay.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Sara Cranston

Deputy Information Compliance Manager
Records Management Section
University of Edinburgh
Old College
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL

Tel: 0131 650 8238

 

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