Author: Editorial staff

If there is one capability that quietly multiplies the impact of an IP professional, it is disciplined, purposeful networking. Not the random exchange of business cards, but a system that turns relationships into better insight, faster coordination, a ...

Trade secrets have become the quiet heavyweights of IP. They are the formulas, process know-how, customer lists, pricing logics and data structures that keep many businesses ahead. But the moment these assets are at stake in court, one brutal reality ...

Game theory was born in the context of war, markets and competition – situations where outcomes depend not only on what you do, but also on what others decide at the same time. In modern IP strategy, this is the daily reality: competitors react to you ...

This article is part of the Open Foresight Board (OFB) initiative of the CEIPI IP Business Academy, which examines how industrial leaders use IP management to reshape their sectors. The OFB explores these cases as strategic signposts for the wider IP ...

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 ...

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 ...