 intellectual property rights intellectual property rights 75 admin mon 10142019 1836 number of patents and other property rights owned by the initiative and awarded during the reporting period when possible the initiative should break down the patents and other intellectual property rights considering the time horizon for its exploitation the country where it was awarded and whether they are produced commercialized or provisional this indicator evaluates the capacity of the initiative to generate research findings with applicable and economic exploitable potential the indicator is clear and easy to calculate additional quantitative patent intellectual property  the official legal right to make or sell an invention for a particular number of years cambridge dictionary  produced patents  patents that the initiatives produced they can be commercialized or not commercialized patents  patents that the research initiative manages or exploites to make a profit initiative scientific report world intellectual property organization database count the total number of patents that the initiative owns and was awarded during the reporting period when breaking down the patents considering the options listed in the description provide a table that summarizes the figures see examples for the sake of comparison the initiative shall report the same figure for the two prior reporting periods number in physical units table with absolute numbers disaggregated per categories output number of patents annually annually this indicator does not evaluate whether or not the patents are being actually applied yes for the number of patens owned and awarded extract from fraunhofer institutes annual report 2017 p 32 extract from fraunhofer institutes annual report 2017 p 33 for the classification of patens based on their expiration date and country extract from bayer annual report 2018 p 40 for the classification of patents base don whether they are provisonally filled or awarded extract from australia s medical research institute snapshot 2018 p 20 link to the world intellectual property organization database  https wwwwipoint branddb en  the tabulated data can also be presented as a graphic this indicator can be used to compute the indicator return on intellectual property  licenses 