The researcher who believes to have achieved an innovative and original result compared to the state of the art should contact the Knowledge Transfer Office to verify if the result can be protected by any industrial property title. The result can be an invention, which falls within a certain scientific field, but also software, a database, or know-how, that is, undisclosed methods/processes/knowledge somehow described and codified and capable of generating commercial value.
The inventions of university researchers are governed by Article 65 of the Industrial Property Code (as amended in August 2023) and by the Regulations for the protection and valorization of industrial property of the Scuola Normale.