• NOGA
  • N ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT SERVICE ACTIVITIES
    • 77 Rental and leasing activities
      • 774 Leasing of intellectual property and similar products, except copyrighted works
        • 7740 Leasing of intellectual property and similar products, except copyrighted works
          • 774000 Leasing of intellectual property and similar products, except copyrighted works

Corresponding CPA codes

• 77.40.1 Licensing services for the right to use intellectual property and similar products, except copyrighted works

  This category includes

  • permitting, granting or otherwise authorising the use of intellectual property products and similar products

  This covers rights to exploit these products, such as licensing to third parties; using patented designs in production processes to produce new goods and so on.

  Limited end user licenses, which are sold as part of a product (e.g. packaged software, books) are not included here.

  This category excludes:

  • licensing services for the copyrighted works (books, films, music, software, computer games), see corresponding subcategories in 58, 59
  • drafting, certification and legal services concerning intellectual property products, see 69.10.15
  • management services for rights to industrial property (patents, licences, trademarks, franchises etc.), see 74.90.20
  • management services for copyrights and their revenues, except for motion picture and artistic rights, see 74.90.20
• 77.40.11 Licensing services for the right to use research and development products

  This subcategory includes:

  • licensing services for the right to use the outcome of research and development activities, i.e. inventions, such as constitutions of matter, processes, mechanisms, electrical and electronic circuits and devices, pharmaceutical formulations and new varieties of living things produced by artifice
• 77.40.12 Licensing services for the right to use trademarks and franchises

  This subcategory includes:

  • licensing services for the right to use trademarks and to operate franchises in respect of other non-produced assets
• 77.40.13 Licensing services for the right to use mineral exploration and evaluation

  This subcategory includes:

  • licensing services for the right to use mineral exploration and evaluation information, such as mineral exploration for petroleum, natural gas and non-petroleum deposits
• 77.40.14 Trademarks and franchises

  This subcategory includes:

  • original trademarks and franchises, i.e. the legally registered ownership of a certain brand name

  These products are produced on own account with the intent of deriving benefits from allowing others to use these trademarks or franchises.

  This subcategory excludes:

  • advisory services for the organisation of marketing channels (including franchises), see 70.22.13
  • research and development work leading to a product or concept that is being trademarked, see division 72
  • management services for rights to trademarks and franchises, see 74.90.20
  • licensing services for the right to use trademarks and franchises, see 77.40.12
• 77.40.19 Licensing services for the right to use other intellectual property and similar products, except copyrighted works

  This subcategory includes:

  • licensing services for the right to use other kinds of intellectual property products such as architectural and engineering plans, industrial designs etc.

  This subcategory excludes:

  • licensing services for the right to use compilations of facts/information (databases), see 58.12.30