A scientific breakthrough can open an entirely new field of opportunity. Building a viable business around it requires decisions about ownership, disclosure, investment and collaboration long before the commercial outcome becomes clear. For deep tech ...
Read MoreLicensing turns the appeal of a brand or character into products, market access and commercial returns. Its success depends on the fit between the rights available, the proposed products and the partners capable of bringing them to market. A minimum g ...
Read MoreSemiconductor equipment companies face a demanding IP management challenge: the functions that create competitive advantage can change while patent applications are still under examination. New equipment generations, tighter process requirements and a ...
Read MoreA licensing partner has launched a product, another is still preparing market entry, and a third reports sales below plan. Each agreement promises future income. Yet the management decision is different in every case. Should the IP owner provide suppo ...
Read MoreThe 2026/27 academic year marks a special occasion for the CEIPI Master in Intellectual Property Law and Management: its twentieth edition. This anniversary celebrates twenty years of connecting legal expertise, technological understanding and busines ...
Read MoreWhat does it take to manage intellectual property as a business function rather than as a collection of legal rights? The 2025/26 Master of Intellectual Property Law and Management at CEIPI answered this across six modules, moving from strategy to val ...
Read MoreThe story of ASML and Carl Zeiss SMT in EUV lithography is often told as a story of technological superiority. That is understandable, because the technology is extraordinary. Extreme ultraviolet lithography enables the production of the most advanced ...
Read MoreGreenTech is often described through technologies: batteries, hydrogen systems, recycling processes, clean mobility, smart grids, carbon capture, low-carbon materials or digital energy platforms. But this picture is incomplete. The decisive question i ...
Read MoreAt the international CEIPI Summer School 2026 in Strasbourg, the IP Expertise Demand Index was presented in a setting that could hardly have been more appropriate. CEIPI, the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies at the University of ...
Read MoreIndustrial IoT is no longer only about connecting machines or collecting operational data. It is increasingly changing how industrial companies understand, stabilize and improve complex production systems. In adhesive, coating and functional material ...
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