When Sonja London talks about out-licensing, she does not start with contracts. She starts with timing, value and culture. As immediate Past President of LESI and founder of Fearless IP, her perspective is rooted in operational reality: most companies ...

If you are an IP professional who wants more of the right client conversations — and fewer random “check-ins” that go nowhere — this new White Paper is for you. It introduces the Business-Development Archetypes for IP Experts, a practical way to align ...

Many IP experts in the IP community at I3PM, the HTB-EPO initiative, and IP offices and institutions in national and regional innovation systems have asked Prof. Dr. Alexander Wurzer: “Where can you be sure not to miss any important IP management cont ...

For many IP experts, personal branding still sounds like something “nice to have”, relevant for visibility, perhaps, but not directly tied to business outcomes. But a strong expert brand does more than make you visible. It shapes the kind of opportuni ...

In today’s innovation economy, patents and other intellectual property have quietly become the real infrastructure of value creation. Factories, machines and buildings still matter, but much of a company’s competitive edge now lies in code, data, algo ...

Scale-ups have become an essential part of the European innovation landscape. They sit at a critical stage between early technological breakthroughs and substantial market presence. Unlike start-ups, which focus on proving feasibility and securing ini ...

The 2025 update of the Open Foresight Board Trend Radar, enriched with insights from MIPLM participants, provides a wide-ranging and multi-layered perspective on the evolution of intellectual property management. The findings show that many traditiona ...

If you lead an IP department or an R&D team, you don’t just need another tool — you need a repeatable way to create demand for IP, prove its value inside your organization, and convert that value into measurable business outcomes. That’s exactly w ...

For more than a decade, digital transformation in engineering meant process standardization and automation, PLM integration, and the perpetual struggle to harmonise documentation across global R&D organisations. These efforts were necessary, but t ...

On 10 October in Munich, Weickmann & Weickmann hosted an expert exchange on digital business development in IP. Across panels and roundtables, one theme kept surfacing: referrals are still the fastest path to high-fit mandates—yet most firms treat ...