The «G. D’Annunzio» University aims at promoting the applied research of the University to collaboration projects with companies and third party entities too.

To this end, it encourages the patenting of research results; if the University is the patent holder, it takes every step to promote their economic value.     

A patent represents a title by which a State grants an inventor a monopoly on the use of an invention/creation, limited to its territory, for a maximum period of 20 years starting on the date the patent application is filed. A patent grants an inventor the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell and importing an invention.

And all this in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention. A patented product gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it. Moreover, interaction with the industry is fostered, setting the basis for an economic valorisation of research findings.

Under the Italian legislation an invention can be patented if it meets the following criteria: novelty, originality or inventive step, industrial applicability, legitimacy.

From the legal point of view, property rights on patentable inventions belong to the researcher/professor hired by the university, except when research is financed or co-financed by an external subject.