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Innovation Law 10.973/2004

Law 10.973, of December 2, 2004 establishes the fundamental principles of the relationship between Scientific, Technological and Innovation Institutions (ICTs) — such as UFRRJ — and the productive sector.

Principles

  • Innovation incentive in Brazilian companies
  • ICT–productive sector cooperation with specific legal instruments
  • Inventor incentive — return sharing
  • Institutional freedom of ICTs to set their own policy

Mandatory NIT

The law made it mandatory for all federal ICTs to create a Technology Innovation Office (NIT) — responsible for managing the innovation policy. At UFRRJ, this role is held by the Innovation Agency, established by CONSU Deliberation 31/2008.

The Innovation Agency has the following minimum legal attributions:

  1. Ensure the maintenance of the policy to encourage protection of creations, licensing, innovation and technology transfer
  2. Evaluate and classify research project results under the Innovation Law
  3. Evaluate independent inventors' requests for invention adoption
  4. Opine on the convenience of protecting creations developed at the institution
  5. Opine on the convenience of disclosing creations subject to intellectual protection
  6. Follow up on filings and maintenance of the institution's IP titles

Distribution of financial returns

The law defines the 1/3 inventors · 1/3 unit · 1/3 institution split when there is royalty return. Details in How royalties work.

Updates

The Innovation Law was deeply updated by the CT&I Legal Framework (Law 13.243/2016) and regulated by Decree 9.283/2018.

See also