DATE: July 19, 1993
TO: Deputy Ministers and Heads of Agencies
FROM: Sid Gershberg
SUBJECT: Retention of Royalties and Fees from the Licensing
of Crown-Owned Intellectual Property
On June 2, 1993, the Treasury Board approved a submission from
the Minister of Industry, Science and Technology and the Minister
for Science regarding the retention of royalties and fees from
the licensing of Crown-owned intellectual property.
Departments and agencies are now authorized to receive,
through Supplementary Estimates, an annual appropriation equal to
all revenues arising from the licensing of Crown-owned
intellectual property which the department or agency remitted to
the Consolidated Revenue Fund in the previous fiscal year. The
Multi-Year Operational Plan (MYOP) will be used as the mechanism
for reporting on the previous year's actual revenues and seeking
authority to include an item in Final Supplementary Estimates in
the current fiscal year. This process will begin as part of the
1994-95 MYOP review, which will provide authority for 19993-94
Final Supplementary Estimates, based on qualifying 1992-93
revenues.
These amounts are intended to be used toward the costs
associated with incentive awards for technology transfer and
other technology transfer activities undertaken by the department
of agency. The Treasury Board recently approved a revised awards
policy in this area; more details will follow in a separate
letter from the Human Resources Policy Branch.
If you would like further information on the retention of
royalties, please contact your Program Branch analyst.
Sid Gersberg,
Assistant Secretary,
Program Branch
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