Sean Neylon Chairman of Nexus Association

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Sean NeylonChairman of Nexus Association
Nexus Supporting FP7 access for NMS/ACC and SMEs
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Contents

• Who is Nexus
• Nexus services
• FP7 Main changes in Intellectual Property

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Who is Nexus

• Nexus is a Pan-European Microsystems Association
  based in Neuchatel, Switzerland
• Operations Manager
• Alan Greatbatch
• Contact
• www.nexus-mems.com
• email info_at_nexus-mems.com
• Tel [phone]
• Membership Free
• Please register Application forms available

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Objectives

• Inclusion of SMEs and NMS (New Member States) /
  ACC (Affiliated Candidate Countries) into FP7
  projects
• Networking, Dissemination Cross fertilization
  between European IP and NOEs throughout MNT
  community
• To provide independent affordable expert driven
• Market / Application studies
• Technology Roadmapping reports

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How it works

• FP7 brokerage events events
• Collaborative efforts with existing national,
  regional networks/clusters/c-o-c (SMEs)
• Formal collaboration with MINOS
• Enlist support of market focused (Integrated
  Projects - IP) networks Euripides EPoSS
• Promotion of NOEs (CSEM/CEA/UK-MNT)
• Horizontal methodology working groups
• MEMS Design
• Materials Processes
• Packaging / integration
• Reliability / Test (Patent-DfMM)
• Metrology?

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Benefits

• Dating Service for NMS/ACC and SMEs
• Advice on helping SME NMS/ACC members become
  active in European Microsystems
• IPR
• FP7 call information
• Industrial and Research networks
• Visibility within the EC
• Internationally acclaimed professional
  reputation
• Commercialization networks Research to
  Industrialization contacts and advice
• Dissemination Website, Ezine, MST News

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Forthcoming FP7 events

• Paris (F) 26th March Smart Systems (CEA)
• Stresa (I) 24th April (Patent-DfMM)
• Loughborough 2nd May (UK CEMMNT)
• Nurnberg (D) 23rd May Sensors Test (IVAM)
• Neuchatel (CH) June ? (Swiss MNT)
• Northern NMS TBC MINOS
• Barcelona June Memswave (RF)
• NanoBio TBC Microfluidics
• Interested to take Dissemination/Cross-fertilizat
  ion role in new FP7 proposals
• Travel support for enhancimg NAS visibility in
  Western Europe

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Intellectual property changes FP6 to FP7
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Terminology
FP6 FP7 EU Contract Grant
Agreement Pre-existing Know How (PEKH)
Background (including side-ground)
(excluding side-ground) Knowledge
Foreground
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Ownership of Knowledge Vs Foreground

• FP6 FP7
• Owned by the participant(s) Principle idem
• carrying out the work leading
• to that knowledge
• Joint ownership Joint ownership
• No default rule if no joint Default rule if no
  joint
• ownership agreement reached ownership agreement
  reached
• (permitted a joint owner to block
• licensing deals with 3rd parties)
• Each joint owner may grant non-exclusive
  licenses to third parties (without the right to
  grant sublicenses) subject to the following
  conditions
• prior notice to the other joint owners
• fair and reasonable compensation to the other
  joint owners

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Ownership of Knowledge Vs Foreground

• FP7
• Idem
• W
• w
• Idem
• Default rule Each joint owner may grant
  non-exclusive licenses to third parties (without
  the right to grant sublicenses) subject to the
  following conditions
• prior notice to the other joint owners
• fair and reasonable compensation to the other
  joint owners

• FP6
• Owned by the participant(s) carrying out the work
  leading to that knowledge
• Joint ownership
• No default rule in case no joint ownership
  agreement is reached(this permitted a joint
  owner to block licensing deals with third
  parties)

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Transfer of ownership to a 3rd partyof Foreground

• FP6
• Prior notice to the other participants as long as
  the participant was required to grant Access
  rights (2 years for Use)
• Commission had to be notified
• Commission could object to a transfer to a third
  party on competitiveness or ethical grounds

• FP7
• Idem, but (1 year for Use)
• Commission does not have to be notified unless
  foreseen in grant agreement
• Idem.

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Publications Vs Dissemination including
publications

• FP6
• Prior written notice to Commission and
  participants
• Commission and other participants could object if
  protection of their knowledge could be adversely
  affected

• FP7
• Prior notice of any dissemination given only to
  participants
• Participants may object if legitimate interests
  in relation to foreground could suffer
  disproportionately great harm

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Access Rights