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In the recorded live interview with host Prof. Dr. Alexander Wurzer, Johannes Ernicke, Patent Attorney and Managing Director of patenza, took a differentiated look at how artificial intelligence is currently used in IP law firms and where its real, st ...

As innovation increasingly drives competitive advantage and corporate valuation, intellectual property (IP) has evolved from a legal checkbox into a strategic business imperative. Yet in many organisations, IP still remains siloed within IP legal team ...

In today’s innovation-driven economy, intellectual property (IP) professionals, whether patent attorneys, IP consultants, or in-house IP counsels, can no longer rely solely on deep technical or legal expertise to sustain and grow their careers. The ro ...

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Digital business development has become unavoidable for IP professionals. Yet many patent attorneys, trademark experts, and IP strategists still feel that “digital” equals marketing pressure, self-promotion, or content that looks polished but feels de ...

In many organisations, “IP strategy” still gets treated as a specialist topic: something that happens late in the process, sits inside the legal function, and mainly exists to defend inventions after the fact. But in today’s high-growth technology lan ...

The highly succesful Call for IP Subject Matter Experts in Europe got extended throughout 2026 and the IP Business Academy continues to look for IP experts who are supporting the users of the IP system in Europe. The IP Business Academy emerges as a p ...

Intellectual property has become one of the main engines of enterprise value. Global rankings of the “Best Global Brands” show that for companies like Apple, Microsoft or Coca-Cola, branded intangible assets account for a substantial share of market c ...

the film Apollo 13, there is a famous scene with Lead Flight Director Gene Kranz in Mission Control. The spacecraft is in trouble, the CO₂ levels are rising, and the engineers are given a brutal brief: “We’ve got to find a way to make this fit into th ...

In the middle of most complex development projects sits a simple commercial truth: teams need options. When a competitor’s patent blocks a promising concept, progress stalls, budgets bleed, and a launch window narrows. Nicos Raftis has built his pract ...