 revenue from intellectual property revenue from intellectual property 12 admin mon 10142019 1724 value of the revenues obtained from the exploitation of patents and other intellectual property rights the indicator assesses the initiative project s capacity to generate economic revenues from the exploitation of their patents and intellectual property rights the indicator is easy to calculate and the information required for its computation is accesible core quantitative patent intellectual property  the official legal right to make or sell an invention for a particular number of years cambridge dictionary  revenue from intellectual property  income obtained from exploiting intellectual property rights scientific report financial report provide the total amount of income in euros or the domestic currency of the initiative project that the initiative obtained from the exploitation of their patents and other intellectual property rights for the sake of comparison the initiative shall report the same figure for the two prior periods number in monetary units output local currency annually annually the indicator only evaluates the economic return of patents but it does not capture their actual application yes extract from fraunhofer institutes annual report 2017 p 33 available at  https wwwfraunhoferde content dam zv en publications annualreport fraunhoferannualreport2017futureofworkpdf this indicator can be used to compute the indicator return on intellectual property  patents 