Promoting Innovation

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Promoting Innovation Technology Diffusion The
Challenge of IP Administration in the 21st Century

• Dr. Tanapoj Ekkayokkaya
• Department of Intellectual Property
• Thailand

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Content

• Role of DIP to Support Promotion of Innovation
  and Technology Diffusion
• Current Difficulties and Challenges
• How to Tackle and DIPs Strategies

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Role of DIP to Support Promotion of Innovation
and Technology Diffusion

• Coordinate with science-related
  agencies/institutions/SMEs
• IP education/training how to conduct proper
  search in each field, how to make use of patent
  information
• IP clinic how to get proper protection, how to
  solve infringement problem, how to get funded
  (capitalization scheme), how to evaluate IP, how
  to get tax refund/rebate, etc.
• Strengthen TLO IP portfolio, local community
  center for IP management

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Role of DIP to Support Promotion of Innovation
and Technology Diffusion (continued)

• Provide effective patent database search
• Search 6 offices in 1 click (WIPO, EPO, USPTO,
  JPO, KIPO, and DIP)
• Provide match-making for innovators and investors
• www.thaiipmartcom (1,085 inventions / 12 success
  cases)

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http//www.thaiipmart.com
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Current Difficulties and Challenges

• Lack of understanding of IP system
• Inventors and public still lack understanding
• IP officers lack skill in conveying knowledge to
  public
• Lack of resources
• Personnel
• Finance

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Current Difficulties and Challenges (continued)

• Bureaucratic and culture
• Complicate decision-making process
• No immediate benefits
• Access to knowledge limited to big cities
• Knowledge sharing culture gtgt contradicting IP
  concept
• Sell research result to foreign companies

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How to Tackle and DIPs Strategies

• Create IP culture
• Use top companies such as SCG as a role model
• Train IP trainers from universities
• Embed into top policy and national agenda
• Embed IP into constitution and insert it as one
  of national agenda
• Spin off as self-sustained agency
• Partly or wholly

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How to Tackle and DIPs Strategies (continued)

• Provide digested patent analysis
• Cooperate with others organizations domestically
  and internationally
• Seek assistance from experience overseas
  institutes and exchange views on policy
  strategies in various forums such as this one.

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