How do you know if your company has an IP strategy? A basic IP strategy widely used by startup companies is “Critical Feature Denial”. In brief, this strategy requires that you identify at least one, and preferably several, critical features necessary ...

Background Question 1: We are currently seeing a continuously accelerating digital transformation in the IP system. Especially in dealing with the stakeholders of the IP system as well as in the relationship and communication between attorneys and cli ...

With the increasing digitalisation of all aspects of our lives and the high level of adoption of smartphones and smart watches, also the use of digital devices to monitor and improve our health is ever growing. And this does not only cover the private ...

DuPont is a leading global multi-industrial company established in 1802, which is today active in approximately 50 countries and transforms local insights into global solutions. A diverse and global network of research centers, manufacturing sites and ...

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

The idea to use computers as supporting tools in drug discovery and design is not new. Already in 1962 chemists were developing so called quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) techniques, which could be used for drug design. Those techni ...

On 13 & 14 June 2024 the next edition of the CEIPI Executive IP Management Days will be hosted in Strasbourg. The Executive IP Management Days are organized as both a presentation of the current state of the art and an exchange of experience of th ...

Digitalization causes a complete paradigm shift of production and innovation options. In a digital environment, innovation systems and management of technology face new challenges every year. Product development and engineering departments across the ...

By Ines Duhanic and Jörn Plettig Intellectual property law plays a crucial role in fostering innovation within the European Union (EU). It provides a legal framework for inventors and creators to protect their ideas, incentivizing them to bring new in ...

Current reports comparing the patent activities between different regions on an international level showed, that there are significant regional variations on the size and quality of the generated patent portfolios. The leading science and tech cluster ...