0 Administrative Information about the Statistical Product


0.1 Name
Handel med IP-rettigheder

0.2 Subject Area
Service sector

0.3 Responsible Authority, Office, Person, etc.
Business development
Helle Månsson, tel. +45 3917 3113

0.4 Purpose and History
The purpose of collecting data on trade in IP-rights is to calculate the size of and the development in the trade in IPR (patents, trademarks, design, utility models) of Danish enterprises.

0.5 Users and Application
Ministries, public institutions, business organisations, media, researchers and private enterprises.

0.6 Sources
Trade in IPR is based on a survey of app. 4.000 Danish enterprises.

0.7 Legal Authority to Collect Data
The act on Statistics Denmark (Act no. 599 of 22 June 2000).

0.8 Response burden
Not calculated.

0.9 EU Regulation
None


1 Contents


1.1 Description of Contents
The purpose of the statistics is to show the size og and the development in Danish enterprises' trade in IPR (patents, trademarks, design, utility models).

The most important variables are:
1) Type of IPR-trade (purchase, sale, licensing)
2) Type of IPR traded (patent, trademark, design, utility model)
3) Trade partner
4) Trade within/without own activity/technological area
5) IPR-strategy

Copyright is not covered by the statistics.

Besides the compulsory questions also a number of voluntary questions collected. For 2008 these are:
* Expectations concerning future trade in IPR
* Pirat copying
* Measures against pirat copying
* Advantages and barriers related to purchase and licensing in of IPR

Not all the voluntary questions will be posed in future surveys.

1.2 Statistical Concepts
The survey is based on two surveypopulations:

The first population consist of enterprises which meet one or more of the following conditions:
* have registered a patent, a design or a utility model in 2003-2007 in Denmark
* have purchased/sold immaterial assets according to the Industrial Accounts Statistics 2006
* have reported certain posts to External trade in services 2008

This population consists of app. 1.500 enterprises.

The second population is a sample of enterprises with 10 or more employees. This population consists of app. 2.500 enterprises.

Coverage:
The statistics cover enterprises with 10 or more employees that are part of the Industrial Accounts statistics 2006.


2 Time


2.1 Reference Period
in 2007 the enterprises were asked for information on trade in IPR during the latest 5-year-period.
In 2008 they are asked of the trade during 2003-2007 and in 2008. It is the intention to ask only for trade during the last calendar year from 2009.

2.2 Date of Publication
12 months after the end of the referenceyear.

2.3 Punctuality
The statistics is published as scheduled.

2.4 Frequency
Yearly.


3 Accuracy


3.1 Overall accuracy
The accuracy of the qualitative informations on trade, IPR-strategy etc. is considered relatively high.

3.2 Sources of inaccuracy
The number of IP-rights traded is in some cases based on an estimate from the respondent, and therefore there are some uncertainty connected with the raised figures.

3.3 Measures on accuracy
Not calculated.


4 Comparability


4.1 Comparability over Time
The statistics are in 2007 and 2008 calculated for the socalled Resource areas, which are coheret business areas. The resource area definition is based on the Danish Activity classification, Dansk Branchekode 1993 (DB03). For 2008 the statistics can also be calculated on basis of DB07. A key between the DB07 and the resource areas has not been established.

Renewal of reference period:
With the objectives of reducing the response burden and at the same time obtain higher precision in the calculations, it has been decided that from the reference year 2009 and onwards only information on trade during the last calendar year will be collected.

The 2008-statistics are therefore a transition year for which information on trade in IPR is asked both for 2003-2007 and for 2008.

The comparability between 2007 and 2008 is considered to be good. As the formulations in the questionnaires for the 2 years are not totally identical this might affect the comparability, though.

4.2 Comparability with other Statistics
There are no official statistics of which the variables are totally somparable to the statistic on trade in IPR. There are a number of statistics in which information are collected that are comparable to a certain extent. These are:
* External trade in service, in which enterprises are asked for information on total purchase of patents, licensing, frinchising, royalties etc.
* Statistics on manufacturing industries' purchase of services, in which enterprises are asked for information on their purchase of licenses, royalties, type-approvals etc.
* Statistics on enterprises research, development and innovation, where enterprises are asked whether they have purchased patents, licenses etc, or have applied for a patent during the reference year..

4.3 Coherence between provisional and final statistics
Only final statistics are published.


5 Accessibility


5.1 Forms of dissemination
Nyt from Statistics Denmark and StatBank Denmark .

5.2 Basic material: Storage and usability
The collected data is stored electronically. Is is possible via the cvr-number of the enterpris, to link the collected data to other statistical registers of Statistics Denmark, for tables as wella s for research purposes.

5.3 Documentation
There is no further documentation.

5.4 Other Information
The 2007-survey is published in Patenter og varemærker 2007. The publication, which is only available in Danish, can be downloaded from www.dst.dk under Temaer og anden gratis statistik, Handel med rettigheder.


Supplementary documentation
No supplementary documentation is available