 exploitation of intelectual property exploitation of intelectual property 73 admin mon 10142019 1836 percentage of patents and other intellectual property rights owned by the research initiative that are being or have been exploited by the pharma industry the indicator evaluates the extent to which the initiative project develops research outputs that are actually being exploited core quantitative patent intellectual property  the official legal right to make or sell an invention for a particular number of years cambridge dictionary initiative scientific report world intellectual property organization database divide the number of patents or other intellectual property rights owned by the initiative that are or have been exploited by the pharma industry by the total number of patents and other intellectual property rights owned by the initiative for the sake of comparison the initiative shall report the same figure for the two prior reporting periods percentage with numerator and denominator output percentage annually annually in some cases it might be difficult for the initiative to calculate the actual number of patents that are being applied by the pharma industry in these situations the initiative project should only consider those with evidence proving its actual application no d este p tribo j a garciaromero a 2008 colaboracion con universidades y desempeno innovador en la industria farmaceutica espanola 20032005  medicina clinica   131  6670 available at  https wwwsciencedirectcom science article pii s0025775308764108 this indicator provides additional information to the indicator revenue from intellectual property  patents 