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Medical connected objects:
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French start-ups show great capacity for innovation in connected objects, particularly in the field of health. How to value this innovation? What are the legal tools that carry value?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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About autors<\/h2><\/div>
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Caroline de Mareuil-Villette and Claire Verschelde, Ph.D., French, Belgian and European patent attorneys, have been associated with ICOSA (an industrial property firm specializing in medical devices, life sciences and chemistry) since 2009. In addition to its patent expertise, ICOSA has developed expertise in software protection, database law and copyrights to meet a strong demand for the protection of connected objects in the field of health.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Caroline de Mareuil-Villette,
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Claire Verschelde,
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Connected objects are featured: at the gigantic US Consumer Electronics Show (CES), no less than 900 exhibitors exhibited connected objects. In terms of health, a 2013 McKinsey study announced a market of $ 1.1 trillion to $ 2.5 trillion per year by 2025, according to this study, the ultimate innovation in remote treatment and follow-up of patients with chronic diseases, thanks to super-efficient connected sensors.
\nOur health is a major goal for the manufacturers of connected objects: from the connected watch or smartphone that record our sports performance, our heart rate or the quality of our sleep, connected objects are likely to play an increasing role in the management of our health. The most technological are connected pacemakers or capsules that are swallowed and contain cameras capable of filming the state of the esophagus or intestine.
\nIn this technological revolution, patents play a large role. The incessant pace at which large companies buy technology start-ups specialized in connected objects requires start-ups to value innovation through the best existing tools: intangible assets, i.e. patents, designs, databases, software, copyrights and trademarks.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Intellectual property, a key asset for connected medical devices<\/h3><\/div>

Patenting a connected object is not always easy and must take into account existing case law.<\/p>\n

In Europe, a patent is a technical solution to a technical problem. This solution can implement a computer program, but cannot be a computer program alone.<\/p>\n

In the United States, since Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, the US Supreme Court has made a distinction between inventions that are not patentable because they refer only to an abstract idea, and patentable inventions, which bring an inventive concept by integrating the abstract idea into a concrete realization, thus resulting in a significant contribution much more important than the abstract idea itself. The application of this decision by the US Patent Office (USPTO) is turning into a real headache, and the patent application writer must anticipate these objections to patentability by intelligently presenting how the IT solution is to make a concrete, new and inventive contribution to the state of the art. But there is no connected object without collections of data: the right of databases, which is an independent right, sui generis, sees its importance multiplied by the stakes of Big Data.<\/p>\n

Finally, who says object immediately thinks of a design.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Know-how: valuing the intellectual property of connected medical devices<\/h2><\/div>
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Being able to set up a portfolio of intangible assets is one of the qualities expected of the entrepreneur of the technological start-up: all the wealth of the start-up is there, and it is up to him to know how to capitalize. Identify what is valuable in the work of the technology team, understand that the establishment of the data collection can be a source of income, have set up valuable databases, request the creation of strong graphical interfaces and managing copyrights, protecting source code for software, creating original designs, juggling secrecy, know-how and patenting – these are the strategic issues for these connected-object start-ups.<\/p>\n

Valuing a portfolio of intangible assets is the procedure prior to any acquisition, any fundraising, and meets specific rules:<\/p>\n