IP Outreach Research > IP Use and Awareness
Reference
| Title: | Les PME déposantes de brevets en France: caractéristiques et évolutions |
| Author: | Hélène Perrin [OSEO] |
| Source: | http://www.oseo.fr/content/download/7198/162405/file/EtudeBrevetsOSEOINPI.pdf |
| Year: | 2004 |
Details
| Subject/Type: | IP Protection |
| Focus: | Commercialisation, Economic / Financial Impact, Enforcement, Patents |
| Country/Territory: | France |
| Objective: | To find out more about small and medium-sized enterprises that file patents. |
| Sample: | About 300 small businesses that have filed a patent in 1999 |
| Methodology: | Postal questionnaire |
Main Findings
6 in ten French small and medium-sized businesses that had filed a patent in 1999 are regular patent applicants, while about 40% are first-time applicants. 17% reported having experienced difficulties during the patent filing process. About 60% have benefited from at least one kind of public assistance in their innovation process.
The top three reasons given for filing patents were: protection against counterfeiting (cited by around 80%), obtaining a monopoly on the invention (about 60%), and increasing enterprise value (about 50%). In most small and medium-sized businesses (61%), the CEO is responsible for managing industrial property.
74% respondents assess the impact of filing a patent on their business as relatively positive or very positive; 25% see no impact, and just 1.4% see a relatively or very negative impact. Filing a patent had a positive impact on market share in France for 65% of respondents, and a positive impact on international market share for 48% of respondents.
39% of surveyed businesses have been involved in (offensive or defensive) litigation concerning counterfeiting.
[Date Added: Apr 9, 2009 ]