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Digital business model transformation in the construction industry – the success story of Hilti

Kleenex is synonymous with paper tissues, Aspirin with pain killers, Scotch with adhesive tape, and BIC with correction pens. In fact, these brands have lent their names to entire product categories, evoking direct associations with quality and functi ...

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Broadcom’s patent infringement suits based on 18 patents against VW: One billion € claim and threat of production stop

The car has become a networked infotainment center in recent years. “Connectivity and state-of-the-art infotainment have found their way into all brands and all classes” announced VW CEO Martin Winterkorn, who has since stepped down, alrea ...

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Symposium IP and Industry 4.0: IP leaders discuss the challenges of protecting digital business models

At the beginning of the day, the questions in the room were “Is anything new with Industry 4.0 and IP?” and “Is it possible to protect anything at all in digital business models?”. At the end of the conference, the last panel discussion summed up the ...

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Rittal: Job posting for IP strategy and IP management in Industry 4.0

In a current job posting, Rittal is looking for a referent (m / f) for IP strategy and IP management. The focus is on the continuous development and management of a group-wide, cross-departmental IP strategy process to protect innovation and the suppo ...

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New research project at MIPLM: Characterization of digital patents

At the beginning of the new millennium, the next technological quantum leap began to emerge, which is now known as the fourth industrial revolution – or Industry 4.0 for short. New technologies permit the development of new business models. In general ...

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New research project at MIPLM: Protection of digital business models by digital patents

At the beginning of the new millennium, the next technological quantum leap began to emerge, which is now known as the fourth industrial revolution – or Industry 4.0 for short. New technologies permit the development of new business models.

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Siemens head of IP Beat Weibel: future vision of IP in the digital transformation

„Challenges of digitalization for IP departments” was the title of Beat Weibel’s lecture at the VPP spring conference in Stuttgart. He describes a future scenario for IP work under the framework conditions of VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, compl ...

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Experience with IP design for medical technology at B. Braun: Dinner Speech at MIPLM in Strasbourg

B. Braun is one of the leading medical technology companies in Europe. With a revenue of around 6.1 bn euros, business activities in 65 countries and nearly 56,000 employees, the company is active in hospital care, surgical instruments, outpatient mar ...

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German Innovation Award 2018 for a WILO Innovation from MIPLM case study: Smartest pump in the world

Under the motto “Wilo brings the future”, the pump experts from Dortmund won the German Innovation Award 2018. The Stratos MAXO is the smartest heating pump in the world with built-in intelligence, far beyond the usual high-efficiency pump ...

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Spring forum at Fraunhofer headquarters on the role of the CTO in digital transformation, Rittal reports on Industry 4.0 strategy

12-13 April, more than 60 technology directors met at the CTO spring forum at the headquarters of the Fraunhofer Society in Munich. This meeting dealt with the question of the role of the CTO in digitization. Is it primarily a technical challenge or i ...

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