In what are called multi-client projects, such as the ones in the Innventia Cluster Research Programme, intellectual property rights (IPR) are especially of great importance. For many years now, through the body of regulations that have been established and continuously improved, different companies can carry out collaborative work in the research and development of new knowledge platforms. These platforms can then serve as a basis for further developing and creating competitive advantages for individual companies through their own projects, by means of bilateral projects with Innventia.

 

The body of regulations has been developed by Innventia, together with lawyers from the pulp and paper industry and its chemical suppliers. The basic principle is that all participants in a Cluster own a non-exclusive right to utilise research results in their own operations. In the next step, a company may acquire so called Optional Rights, which means, among other things, the possibility of marketing and selling products based on the results. The other project financiers are then asked by Innventia whether they would also like to have Optional Rights. Finally, if the other project financiers approve, it is possible for an individual company to acquire so called Sublicensing Rights, which gives a third party the right to utilise the results commercially, among other things.